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> It’s like there’s nothing to object to technically and so the mob has turned their rage onto speech patterns. I’m usually the first to roll my eyes at such m
by laumars 7y ago
> It’s like there’s nothing to object to technically and so the mob has turned their rage onto speech patterns.
I’m usually the first to roll my eyes at such mobs but this case is different. When you have a company that has a documented past of privacy and security violations and then releases a letter saying “sorry about the new reported problems but you wouldn’t have known about it if we weren’t so popular lately,” you can hardly blame us for getting ranty. It just demonstrates that fixing those problems was never a priority and thus that press release is really just meaningless platitudes.
- floatingatoll 7y agoI absolutely blame us for pitchfork mob behavior in the initial reply, even if there’s a risk that Zoom is misbehaving intentionally. Theories about their motivations are no excuse for this. There is never an excuse for this. This behavior is unprofessional of us, disrespectful of us, and makes HN look no better than 4chan or Reddit to anyone who sees us doing so.
- laumars 7y agoWhich initial replies are we talking about? The one I wrote was literally just calling out their statement as being generic, templated and “hogwash”. I don’t see what’s disrespectful nor unprofessional about that. As for other people’s comments, if others took it too far (I haven’t read the majority other other comments since I came to this early and haven’t ventured outside of my thread since, so you’ll have to excuse my if ignorance here) then perhaps you should be taking that up with them rather than me? In any case, I don’t appreciate being lumped as part of a “mob mentality”! My own opinions are my own and not the product others.