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Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards - X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it? (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 68 points 10 months ago (8 children)

I see a lot of people hate The Verge and I don’t understand why. Is it perfect? No. But, I think they have a pretty solid ethics policy and they call out bullshit.

I like 404 better but Verge is by no means bad.

Maybe there was an issue with them that I don’t know about? Idk!

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  • [–] 27 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    An eon ago they made a PC building guide that was riddled with mistakes and had to pull it down again and I think that's still where most of that comes from.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago*

    IIRC the initial response to extremely valid criticism of the video was also terrible, and they threw the video host under the bus for a rushed video that should've never been produced under the circumstances it was (granted he was part of the terrible response to criticism)

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago

    Yeah. I just looked it up. That video was dumb and bad. Shouldn’t have made it up, but the article is still on their site. They did issue a retraction and update the story to correct the inaccuracies.

    I don’t know if it warrants the Lemmy hate but I also know that Lemmy hates anything corporate so it is what it is. I’ll still read The Verge as long as they follow their own ethics policy.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    Paywalls mostly (speaking for myself).

    That and, back in the day, they trashed Samsung for making big phones, then praised Apple for making objectively less functional ones (no stylus, no Note like features). We started calling them iVerge back then, for favoritism to Apple. Even as an Apple guy, I found it annoying.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Google "verge pc build". They ran a video of a guy, completely unqualified, building a "$2000 PC", and doing almost everything wrong. And then the guy called people racists for dunking on him. There's layers to the story. The Verge has been a joke of tech reporting for years.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    Found it. Yeah that video was bad.

    To their credit, they did issue a retraction and repost the story with correct steps.

    The copyright strikes were definitely a dumb way to handle it.

    Idk if true or not but in an Arstechnica story, The Verge’s editor in chief apparently asked the Vox lawyers to rescind the copyright strikes.

    I don’t mean to sound like I’m defending them. The video should never have made it up in the first place, but people make mistakes. If you own it and apologize, I’ll give you a second chance.

    I don’t always agree with their take on a topic, but for the most part I have found them to be factual.

    I do also agree with many Ed Zitron takes about them tho. They could be doing a better job on AI, but over the last few weeks I’ve seen an improvement there.

    TLDR: that PC build from 8 years ago was dumb and extra embarrassing, they should feel bad for it, but I still think some if the hate they get is unjustified.

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