Comment on How to block posts about Elon Musk (or other custom string) on computer

• FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Henry Ford was an antisemitic loon. Should we abandon mass production of cars? Wehrner von Braun was a literal Nazi, should we abandon efforts to land on the Moon?

  Elon Musk is a terrible person, yes. But the technologies his companies work on are not affected by his terribleness as a person.

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  • tabular@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You suppose his terribleness has zero impact on the technologies his companies work on? That is the whole issue of him owning Twitter.

    One shouldn’t trust a black box technology (software) in the first place but even moreso from his companies.

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    • FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Based on the comments about him online, I find that he is simultaneously in complete control of every aspect of his companies and their technologies, and also an idiot rich kid who bought every company fully-formed and relies entirely on the people he hired to get anything done.

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      • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You can dictate what your employees do in a company you own, that much is self evident

        He can tell his employees to go one way and ignore (or fire) them when they raise objections

        So he can be in total control and still be a spoiled rich idiot, those things are not mutually exclusive

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