synphul
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- Mar 11, 2011
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I can't say I'm surprised, whether I agree with what Luckey's doing or not. Politics is a very divided game and it's one of the old standby's to avoid in the workplace. Much like religion, the best of friends can get along until the topic changes to something so divided in which both camps have their strong beliefs.
Some of these companies and figure heads would be best off to keep quiet and exercise their right to privately pulling the lever in the voting booth voting as any other citizen does. Plenty of well known names have come forward in this election cycle spouting their beliefs and it has an impact. There are quite a few people in hollywood I wish would have kept their thoughts to themselves since my view of them has changed and I no longer watch their movies. Before spouting off when their politics were unknown, I didn't care.
I think people get concerned when it involves tech, regardless of which candidate it is. Social media sites and even search sites which are open about their liberal support, it's been found that their views extend down into their products. Messages being deleted if they oppose liberal views, search results coming up with a liberal slant and hiding other links which show on other search engine results.
It becomes more than just an individual's political beliefs apart and separate from a service or product. Anyone who is in the spotlight, a figure head or anything else should know it's no longer like being an 'average Joe'. If your neighbor goes out to get ice cream and fast food no one cares. If it's the founder or ceo of a tech firm, if they happen to be overweight, if it's a government official it's front page news. If they want their life to be private they need to keep it private, if they want to be judged by the masses who will invariably judge them then by all means shine a spotlight on it.
It sounds like many are backing away from Oculus because of a potential political slant. It's also likely many people may very well choose Oculus because of it. I think much of it goes hand in hand with what people do or don't know or how much of a big deal people make of something. In this case it's been made a large news story and so everyone is screaming boycott Oculus. Why no backlash over Bethesda games or boycott of the skyrim or fallout series? After all they're owned by Zenimax and Trump Management is on the board of directors. I'm betting many people who love those games had no clue and there was no major story around it so no one cared. What they didn't know didn't hurt them.
Some of these companies and figure heads would be best off to keep quiet and exercise their right to privately pulling the lever in the voting booth voting as any other citizen does. Plenty of well known names have come forward in this election cycle spouting their beliefs and it has an impact. There are quite a few people in hollywood I wish would have kept their thoughts to themselves since my view of them has changed and I no longer watch their movies. Before spouting off when their politics were unknown, I didn't care.
I think people get concerned when it involves tech, regardless of which candidate it is. Social media sites and even search sites which are open about their liberal support, it's been found that their views extend down into their products. Messages being deleted if they oppose liberal views, search results coming up with a liberal slant and hiding other links which show on other search engine results.
It becomes more than just an individual's political beliefs apart and separate from a service or product. Anyone who is in the spotlight, a figure head or anything else should know it's no longer like being an 'average Joe'. If your neighbor goes out to get ice cream and fast food no one cares. If it's the founder or ceo of a tech firm, if they happen to be overweight, if it's a government official it's front page news. If they want their life to be private they need to keep it private, if they want to be judged by the masses who will invariably judge them then by all means shine a spotlight on it.
It sounds like many are backing away from Oculus because of a potential political slant. It's also likely many people may very well choose Oculus because of it. I think much of it goes hand in hand with what people do or don't know or how much of a big deal people make of something. In this case it's been made a large news story and so everyone is screaming boycott Oculus. Why no backlash over Bethesda games or boycott of the skyrim or fallout series? After all they're owned by Zenimax and Trump Management is on the board of directors. I'm betting many people who love those games had no clue and there was no major story around it so no one cared. What they didn't know didn't hurt them.
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