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They don’t seem to get into much of the other controversy about him. There’s an argument thhat this publicity also affected Oculus sales and public image. The
by alphabettsy 8y ago
They don’t seem to get into much of the other controversy about him. There’s an argument thhat this publicity also affected Oculus sales and public image.
The title is heavily editorialized which I suspect is a big reason this is flagged.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/business/oculus-palmer-luckey-new-start-up.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/business/oculus-palmer-lu...
https://variety.com/2016/digital/news/oculus-backlash-palmer-luckey-alt-right-1201869275/ https://variety.com/2016/digital/news/oculus-backlash-palmer...
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/09/how-your-oculus-rift-is-secretly-funding-donald-trumps-racist-meme-wars/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/09/how-your-oculus-...
- dang 8y agoThe submitted title was "Facebook Fired Palmer Luckey Because He Supported Trump". That indeed broke the site guidelines, which ask: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." Submitters: Changes like that have strong degrading effects on discussion, so please don't do that. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html