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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisstokelwalker/raspberry-pi-hired-ex-cop-mastodon-controversy

This cracked me up
Liz Upton, Raspberry Pi’s cofounder and chief marketing officer, told BuzzFeed she believes that much of the issue stems not from the hiring of the former police officer who admitted to using Raspberry Pis for covert surveillance, but instead from a picture the account posted to Mastodon a day earlier showing pigs in blankets. “We didn’t put a content warning on it, because we don’t put a content warning on meat,” Upton said. “There were quite a few people who tried to start dogpiling on that.” She also claimed that part of the vitriolic response could be because Raspberry Pi is struggling with supply chain difficulties at present, and people “were already cross.” “I think what we’re looking at is a dogpile that’s being organized somewhere,” Upton said. “There’s obviously a Discord or a forum somewhere.”

The Computer Company Raspberry Pi Hired An Ex-Cop, And People Are Pissed

“I think what we’re looking at is a dogpile that’s being organized somewhere,” a Raspberry Pi cofounder told BuzzFeed News.
Chris Stokel-Walker (BuzzFeed)
clar fon
clar fon  
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Content warning: where's the satire

The research fairy
The research fairy  
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Wait, they don't believe that us hating cops is actually what it's like on Fedi

They still don't get that?
Hedge Fae
Hedge Fae  
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@researchfairy Clearly it's the sausages

/Clearly/
@The research fairy
Andrew
Andrew  
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@researchfairy if only they'd put a "hog" cw on there, they'd have been the post popular account on the network. you know. until...
@The research fairy
secretsloth
secretsloth  
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ummm hi, it's called fediblock lmao facepalm
Greg Burrell :pei_flag:🦞🚴🥔
Greg Burrell :pei_flag:🦞🚴🥔  
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Of course, it must be a coordinated attack! It can't possibly be that they did a shitty thing and responded like assholes when they were called out. No, it's the users who are wrong.
Hedge Fae
Hedge Fae  
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Sausage Discord is coming for us!!1!
Michael Randall
Michael Randall  
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I hope it’s not the German one. German sausage Discord is the wurst.
Julia, normal person
Julia, normal person  
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xD Yes, the missing CW was the issue
artsyhonker / Kathryn
artsyhonker / Kathryn  
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Content warning: silly, cops,

Martin Kelly
Martin Kelly  
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I very rarely see a defence so stupid it makes me laugh but this cleared that barrier easily. No, clown. It’s because you make bad hires and can’t read
Hedge Fae
Hedge Fae  
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@researchfairy Yeah I dunno

Like I don't want to dismiss any legit shitty experiences they've had but if their take away from half of fedi blocking them because of their response to being criticised for hiring a cop is 'it was because we didn't content warn the sausage'...
@The research fairy
IndustrialRobot
IndustrialRobot  
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the whole article is a bit shit
Grunge Fox :verified_trans:
Grunge Fox :verified_trans:  
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Content warning: RPi drama

Hedge Fae
Hedge Fae  
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@Tattooed_mummy @hugo They're imaginary sausages, just like the imaginary reasoning in the article
@Hugo Gameiro @Tattooed_Mummy
pop_quiche_purveyor 🐚
pop_quiche_purveyor 🐚  
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Content warning: Meta - Death of Pi

Hedge Fae
Hedge Fae  
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Content warning: Meta - Death of Pi

@pop_quiche_purveyor 🐚
pop_quiche_purveyor 🐚
pop_quiche_purveyor 🐚  
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Content warning: Meta - Death of Pi

The research fairy
The research fairy  
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Yeah, on second thought I'm deleting those posts because—extremely shitty ambiguous journalism aside—I don't want to encourage people doing the "but did it really happen?" thing to individuals who experience harassment
Erik
Erik  
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I can't decide if it's weirder to already genuinely have had like a policy that "we don't content warning meat" or to pretend on the fly that you totally had established that just to make this flimsy excuse.
Hedge Fae
Hedge Fae  
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Content warning: raspberryPi drama

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Hedge Fae
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Content warning: raspberryPi drama

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Hedge Fae
Hedge Fae  
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Content warning: raspberryPi drama

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Crab With Knife
Crab With Knife  
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guys, it wasn't me it was, uh, the content warning crusaders! Yeah, that's why we got all this bad press. My actions have nothing to do with it.
Erika
Erika  
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ok now that's just silly... she's... being silly on purpose, right? Like... she doesn't actually believe that? Been holding in the farts too long they went to her head?
I cannot tell anymore.
knightly
knightly  
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Content warning: raspberryPi drama

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Rob Pomeroy
Rob Pomeroy  
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"We have a policy that we are never wrong."

Pure narcissism. Or perhaps Hanlon's Razor.
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