Conde Naste's Ars Technica writer, Peter Bright, posted horrific content in their company forums. In hindsight after his arrest the context is unbelievable that he could openly post to their internal forums and his social media blatantly unacceptable content and keep his job.
What stood out to me is that Ars Technica did not respond initially with a statement. You'd think they'd be on top of it, disavowing their reporters behavior with general PR speak and distance themselves. Instead their employee responses in their public forums came off curt and annoyed by the attention.
It came off that staff didn't see anything wrong with what happened and were annoyed his behavior was considered somehow controversial. Given Ars Technica is based out of California's Bay Area and they're known for network of connections to tech companies in the area, I think that's reflection of tech company views overall.
That experience got me thinking where those with that form of predilection would congregate in the year 2020. They won't be found in schools, churches, or boy scouts where there's heat and scrutiny. Tech industry data collection and surveillance provides environment with access to illegal content as course of business without same degree of public scrutiny.
So we keep seeing stories such as this Netflix published content. Tech industry filled with people working on Snapchat, Facebook, companies that have to deal with the worst of the worst uploaded to their platforms. They're so accustomed they've lost sight of what's actually offensive.
And these are the people choosing what to censor or what's 'hate speech'.
Conde Naste's Ars Technica writer, Peter Bright, posted horrific content in their company forums. In hindsight after his arrest the context is unbelievable that he could openly post to their internal forums and his social media blatantly unacceptable content and keep his job.
What stood out to me is that Ars Technica did not respond initially with a statement. You'd think they'd be on top of it, disavowing their reporters behavior with general PR speak and distance themselves. Instead their employee responses in their public forums came off curt and annoyed by the attention.
It came off that staff didn't see anything wrong with what happened and were annoyed his behavior was considered somehow controversial. Given Ars Technica is based out of California's Bay Area and they're known for network of connections to tech companies in the area, I think that's reflection of tech company views overall.
That experience got me thinking where those with that form of predilection would congregate in the year 2020. They won't be found in schools, churches, or boy scouts where there's heat and scrutiny. Tech industry data collection and surveillance provides environment with access to illegal content as course of business without same degree of public scrutiny.
So we keep seeing stories such as this Netflix published content. Tech industry filled with people working on Snapchat, Facebook, companies that have to deal with the worst of the worst uploaded to their platforms. They're so accustomed they've lost sight of what's actually offensive.
And these are the people choosing what to censor or what's 'hate speech'.