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While I don’t mean to direct any of this at Tony Roberts personally, it seems a bit weird that RPi had the chance to give a role model platform to someone other than a middle aged white man.
Never mind the “we’ve hired a spy” intro and their combative replies to criticism on here!
@Raspberry_Pi Aaaaaand I’m blocked on here and Twitter. Interesting way to deal with genuine concern.
I like what raspberry pi have done for the maker community over the years, and making it more accessible for young people to learn!
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And to clarify, before I put the internet down for a bit and go outside.
I am all for people changing careers, and using their skills for cool fun things instead of surveillance. Toby's probably going to make some cool things there!
But to focus the announcement on his surveillance background rather than making, and then respond to peoples worries with sarcasm and blocking seems a bit of an odd PR move.
@mattgrayyes @Raspberry_Pi 100% agree.
If people couldn't change then no-one would be able to move on from a problematic past.
It's their messaging and handling of all this that is wrong, but their edgelord-teenage-maturity-level social media responses that's not going down well.
@brunty @mattgrayyes @Raspberry_Pi
This reminds me of when Adafruit mishandled the disclosure of a github leak of customer data and the story on Twitter became about Adafruit blocking those who expressed concern about the privacy breach
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