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Wow… I thought adults worked for Raspberry Pi. Most childish stuff I’ve seen. They could use the money for other things instead of employing that garbage social media team

I've read the article about the increase in child labour yesterday, but it didn't say they also were being employed as Social media managers

Can't see it right now (Cloudflare error), so could you expand a bit, please?

Edit: Ok, I found an earlier discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33907982 "Rasperry Pi hires former police surveillance officer as Maker in Residence"

My first impression is that this is just a big nothingburger.

"Childish people working at Raspberry Pi" part was about the twitter thread, how Pi announces such hire and how it handles the replies. Pi announces an old surveillance officer is hired for the project (his old work is apparently unrelated to his new role), some people (warranted or not) raises eyebrows, social media guys at Pi handles the situation in a very childish manner

Ok, well, I was unable to load https://archive.ph/AM8OA.

Yeah, the "Oh no, he was a police officer" type responses are far worse than the Pi team's response.

They should have been more judicious at figuring out who to ignore, but that seems like a trivial thing to get upset over.

Wow that thread is a shitshow

jesus, you're right.

RaspberryPI>"We hired a former cop who used our SBCs to spy on people"

Everyone> "That's concerning"

RaspberryPI> "Do you want to block us or should we block you?"

That’s just how it is these days. Companies are all getting their social media teams to do this because it generates attention.

I don't think this is a top-down deliberate strategy. As evidence, if you load the thread today, a bunch of comments are gone, including all but the first two comments from the @Raspberry_Pi account. Most likely an adult showed up, realized it was creating horrible publicity, and deleted a bunch of stuff.

Though... looking at https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisstokelwalker/raspb... , it looks like one of the founders is not necessarily much better: called the complainer a "concern troll" and refused to admit any wrongdoing or responsibility as an organization.

An organization has a responsibility to never hire anyone who's ever been involved in an organisation a few people on a tiny social network dislike?

No, the decision to hire the guy seems reasonable or at least defensible. The thing the founder would ideally have addressed is that the behavior of the social media manager, in responding to the posters' complaints (about the hiring decision, and then about the behavior), was excessively dismissive, escalatory, and generally inappropriate.

random note, in case you feel like making your links more globally accessible:

archive.today's .ph domain is blocked in my country (as is .today), though the rest of its domains (which you can find below) still work

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today

This gets an "SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP" error on Firefox Nightly, I wonder what's going on..

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