• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    1 year ago

    Obvious tactic, paint the other side as violent and you’ll get sympathy. Won’t someone please think of the corporation.

    Make no mistake, spez would love to see someone in a reddit tshirt beat up on the street. He’d be able to plaster that everywhere he could showing how sad his side is

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      1 year ago

      A false flag is a typical right wing move. I can picture spez doing it. He should pick some kid name Aaron just to make it that much more spiteful.

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      1 year ago

      It’s working, too. The Forbes article which I saw posted either here or on Kbin didn’t even push back on Huffman’s claim that traffic from LLMs was the reason for the price hike, and I haven’t seen any big publication use the audio or transcripts showing a slam-dunk case of slander (or libel, whichever one applies to text) against the Apollo developer.

      • SickIcarus@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        slander (or libel, whichever one applies to text)

        Easy way to remember: Slander is Spoken. (They both start with S)

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        The problem with the libel/slander is unless it falls into a few categories of what’s called per se defamation, you’re required to prove damages. (From the libel’s/slander’s damage to your reputation, not from something like Reddit’s API change destroying his business.)