• altair222@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    they hired a surveillance officer, disgustingly trolled people trying to raise concern over it, their CEO said that the fediverse was using discord to run a hate campaign against the organization.

    • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      the fediverse was using discord to run a hate campaign against the organization

      Why do I doubt that if the Fediverse was going to run a hate campagin, they’d use Discord

      • Peter1986C@beehaw.org
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        2 years ago

        There probably are many reasons to doubt the likelyhood of using Discord, lol.

        Then again, what query would I have to use on Searx (or any other search engine) to find more info whether any official from the Pi Foundation would have made those claims in the first place?

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      2 years ago

      Not sure on the veracity of all that, but I doubt that a company (or rather their PR team) would “troll” people.

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          I have read some news on it a while ago and I still think everything got a bit overblown. I do not remember at this point ( I got bigger stuff to care about RN, like possibly most of us do right now), but was that officer not even actually hired but rather a community contributor instead? Plus, surveillance does not have to be against citizens but could also be against organised crime rings. I do understand that cops can be proverbial bastards (especially in the US and certain developing nations and dictatorships), but are some activists and netizens not overreacting a bit?

          And what is your reply* for kind of comment anyway, after your showcase of maturity (/s) when calling something more akin to a potential (massive) PR blunder, “trolling”.

          *Your “have it your way” remark.