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To be fair, the issue *was* pigposting

Hedge Fae

2022-12-09 17:08:15


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)

Martijn Vos
Martijn Vos  
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It's bizarre that someone in charge of marketing can be so unbelievably tone deaf and unaware of their customers. Either she, or someone, is intentionally trying to damage Raspberry Pi's brand (like Elon with Twitter?), or they just got a massive deal with a surveillance company and a requirement for the deal was to get rid of all their privacy-conscious customers.
silverwizard
silverwizard  
I think they are just outside the anti-police bubble that is basically all of the fedi
Martijn Vos
Martijn Vos  
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@silverwizard
It's not just about the cop. I can totally understand hiring him if he's got the skills they want. The issue is firstly how they present him ("look at all this cool privacy-invasive spyware you can make") and secondly how they respond to questions from the community ("bye bye" *block*).

And then claiming it's about pigs in a blanket without a content warning. It's a completely surreal level of denial. I don't understand how anyone can double down on a relatively minor mistake in such a totally destructive manner.
@silverwizard
silverwizard
silverwizard  
Yeah - it's definitely just a completely bonkers conspiracy theory rather than checking your team for actual problems
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