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Seems completely reasonable to me. If people in the technology industry cannot move forward with society then they should be left behind.

• matthewmorgan 10y ago
  it's the taboo-merchants who will be left behind
• tobltobs 10y ago
  A joke about the internet being promiscuous means that the person cannot move forward with society? He even did say that being promiscuous was a good thing for the internet. And this whole thing seems to be completely reasonable to you?
  • chrisbennet 10y ago
    It wasn't a joke about the internet being promiscuous. Crock ford used the word "promiscuous" correctly and people (non-native speakers or uneducated perhap?) didn't know that the word has multiple meaning and took it the wrong way. It would be almost like using the word "catholic" but having it misinterpreted as "Catholic" and then taking offense.
• ageofwant 10y ago
  I'm sorry but but society has already run the Gestapo, Mao Zedong, Stalin experiments, several times. I think we have all the data we need from those for the time being. Pardon me if I'd rather be part of the control group for this round.
  • youdontknowtho 10y ago
    If you think that this is in any way comparable to the atrocities committed by those groups...
  • jsmthrowaway 10y ago
    I'm reminded more of McCarthy when controversies like this unfold. Seems a more reasonable comparison, anyway, if a bit passé. I can even think of a few folks who have been publicly 'censured' after shooting and missing in events like these, much like McCarthy was in his own time. (Not stating any opinion on the highlighted incident at all, despite making that comparison -- series of events themselves make me say that, not my personal beliefs nor a characterization of the parties or details involved that might reasonably be inferred by the association.)