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He was just drunk and made an offhanded joke. Come on people, we make offensive jokes all the time. The difference is that people laugh our jokes off and for hi

by onedev 12y ago

He was just drunk and made an offhanded joke. Come on people, we make offensive jokes all the time. The difference is that people laugh our jokes off and for him, a reporter picked it up and ran with it. I'm not trying to defend Uber with any of the other stuff, I just think that one particular thing was blown up a little bit more than was necessary. I prefer Lyft anyway.

shangxiao 12y ago
lol when will people learn not to drink & make stupid jokes in public ;)
droopyEyelids 12y ago
People in positions of power are held accountable when they don't take things they're responsible for seriously. You could joke about fucking with people's privacy because you don't have a huge database of abortion clinic visits and one night stands and children's daycare locations. As soon as you did, people would start holding you accountable.
sparkzilla 12y ago
His comments were not a joke, but a direct threat against a particular journalist and her family.
jedp 12y ago
in vino veritas
wpietri 12y ago
If the guy is dumb or arrogant enough to get drunk and make off-the-cuff offensive jokes about the press in front of the press and his boss then he should be fired promptly. That he wasn't speaks volumes. Senior executives of billion-dollar companies do not accidentally have dinner with reporters. The dinner was part of a PR effort. Maybe the guy's really a rube or a loose canon. But personally, my guess is that he "joked" about harming a journalist whose coverage they didn't like because he wanted other journalists to think twice about giving them bad coverage.
philwelch 12y ago
I don't really want to restart that whole argument again, I just want to point out that in these firestorms of outrage, the actual truth of the matter can take a lot of the damage.
FlyingSnake 12y ago
>Come on people, we make offensive jokes all the time. >I'm not trying to defend Uber with any of the other stuff Sorry to break it down to you, but you're infact defending Uber.

by onedev 12y ago

shangxiao 12y ago

lol when will people learn not to drink & make stupid jokes in public ;)

droopyEyelids 12y ago

People in positions of power are held accountable when they don't take things they're responsible for seriously. You could joke about fucking with people's privacy because you don't have a huge database of abortion clinic visits and one night stands and children's daycare locations. As soon as you did, people would start holding you accountable.

sparkzilla 12y ago

His comments were not a joke, but a direct threat against a particular journalist and her family.

jedp 12y ago

in vino veritas

wpietri 12y ago

If the guy is dumb or arrogant enough to get drunk and make off-the-cuff offensive jokes about the press in front of the press and his boss then he should be fired promptly. That he wasn't speaks volumes. Senior executives of billion-dollar companies do not accidentally have dinner with reporters. The dinner was part of a PR effort. Maybe the guy's really a rube or a loose canon. But personally, my guess is that he "joked" about harming a journalist whose coverage they didn't like because he wanted other journalists to think twice about giving them bad coverage.

philwelch 12y ago

I don't really want to restart that whole argument again, I just want to point out that in these firestorms of outrage, the actual truth of the matter can take a lot of the damage.

FlyingSnake 12y ago

>Come on people, we make offensive jokes all the time. >I'm not trying to defend Uber with any of the other stuff Sorry to break it down to you, but you're infact defending Uber.