@jldevoy: The company has more legitimate reasons. If a major spokesperson for the company is found responsible for racism and anti-semitism he is harming the company. A company should be able to act in the best interests of the organization and when applicable stock holders.
@el_swanno: That might be pretty insightful actually, good point. I'd prefer if they would just say they don't support the way the platform works or is run rather than getting embroiled in politics, personally.
I also understand why devs may be wary about the actual platform, it seems incredibly unaware in so many ways. Reminds me of Microsoft at the peak of their arrogance near the end of the last generation and the start of this one.
@Golden_Gonads: No, people care about Trump. Trump has been villianized by the media and most people will cling to that rather than the actual problem with his behavior: intense bigotry. Supporting a shitty Presidential Candidate like Trump or Hillary is far more acceptable and reasonable and should stop being the focus. People are far too quick to make complete judgements of a person based on the horse they back in the election. There is no way that voting in a two party system could possibly give you the context you need to judge a person.
This seems profoundly over reactive and anti-consumer. I hope they will resume support of the platform if he steps down or is removed.
I also think it is really sad that people care more about Trump than the active racism and the like that Palmer seems to be directly involved in.
If people applied the same logic they applied to judging Trump instead to Hillary, you'd think they would tear her apart for raising a great friend of the Trump family and BEING A FAMILY KNOWN TO SUPPORT AND ENGAGE WITH TRUMP in the past. Trump has not changed since the Clinton family aligned and befriended the Trump family. People are ridiculous.
I understand not wanting to support a racist, if that is what Palmer is. That is reasonable. However it seems shitty to deny consumers access to their product because they chose a product before Palmer's behavior became more public. One person who seems to no longer be a necessary part of the Oculus machine seems an iffy reason to cancel support for the platform overall.
Fucking Google and Twitter and Facebook need to stop controlling shit so much. They let ACTUAL ISIS posts to fall through the cracks, but a fucking joke? I am so sick of these anti-liberty corps from acting the way they do.
@Ragnawind: That's only really true for Pokestops, which are places with purpose. Pokemon can spawn anywhere, including well within private property. And often they spawn outside of the visual radius which suggests the player needs to get closer. And they place the pokemon on the map on private property. People are encouraged to go and get to the location of the pokemon. Players are responsible, but so is the developer to a lesser extent. They failed to clean things up to avoid such a major collection of similar issues.
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