• rookeh@geddit.social
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    Yeah, I just finished watching it. I stand corrected - first impressions aside, Steve raises some important concerns.

    I’m also impressed that he voluntarily de-monetized his own video, it goes a long way to highlighting the principles behind it. Not many content creators literally put their money where their mouth is like that.

    I will be interested to see how LMG responds to this.

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        2 years ago

        From his response:

        To Steve, I expressed my disappointment that he didn’t go through proper journalistic practices in creating this piece

        I’d be interested to hear what Linus considers to be proper journalistic practice in that case.

        The rest of his response goes some way to addressing a few of the concerns raised, but I feel this is going to turn into another “Trust me Bro” debacle (i.e. he cannot seem to take criticism on the chin, no matter how valid or invalid it may be).

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          I get it a tiny bit. Normal journalist practice would be to reach out for comment on a piece like this. Doesn’t and wouldn’t change the accuracy of the content though.

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          Okay asking LTT-s CEO (not him btw) would’ve helped, on the other hand nothing he wrote in the comments about “”“”“commiting payment”“”“”“” to Billit made the case look any better.