Dear MG Siegler, Are you seriously upset about your photo?
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Dear MG Siegler, Are you seriously upset about your photo?
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Re: Dear MG Siegler, Are you seriously upset about your photo?
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Re: Dear MG Siegler, Are you seriously upset about your photo?
#3He's not "seriously upset" about the photo. He thinks what's happening is ridiculous, and therefore took the time to ridicule it. He's clearly right. But it's not a moral crusade.
Re: Dear MG Siegler, Are you seriously upset about your photo?
#4I like how humble Tom is about MySpace. All these years later, and he's still my only friend...
In all seriousness, he should be proud of what they accomplished. Yes, it kind of turned into a cesspool, but there was no model of how a social network should be until Facebook came along. MySpace was an evolution of Geocities, more than it was an attempt to have the kind of "respectable" social presence that facebook shot for. MySpace was still the startup that proved social would be huge.
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I have heard of people being thrown out of mall's because they were wearing an offensive t-shirt. I think the analogy that google+ is basically private property that is open to the public. The website isn't owned by the public instead it is owned by google. The point of google censoring offensive content is to not only follow their own rules but to make the company that provides this service to still look good and keep up their public image.
Re: Dear MG Siegler, Are you seriously upset about your photo?
#6Pretty sure this would fall under Apple's "objectionable content" policies for their app store.
Wonder if MG would complain about that policy, too? :-)
Re: Dear MG Siegler, Are you seriously upset about your photo?
#7The TechCrunch crew has a long history of "calling out" major companies on their product decisions, in the absence of any of the data or context in which such complex decisions are made.
P.S. I love how Tom has turned into the elder statesman of social networks.
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#8MySpace was never a cesspool... it's now a musician's website for posting about bands.
The only thing more stupid than the internet comments on Hacker News is Google itself: the kings of know-it-all dumbasses!
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#9Really? An "'I hate white people' t-shirt" parallel?
Don't even get me started on that atrocious "we don't need to see this" line of argumentation. If the Google+ is going to censor (let's call things by their proper names) pictures that "people don't need to see", where's the goddamned line?
Imbecile.
That such a poorly constructed argument makes its way to the Hacker News homepage is worrisome. I had the hope that people who use logic for a living would have higher standards.
Re: Dear MG Siegler, Are you seriously upset about your photo?
#10Pretty sure this would fall under Apple's "objectionable content" policies for their app store. Wonder if MG would complain about that policy, too? :-)
According to the linked complaint by MG, he is not whining about the policy so much as about the deletion without warning:
> My problem isn’t so much with the fact that I couldn’t have a profile picture of myself giving everyone the finger — which I can and do on Twitter and elsewhere — it’s that no one bothered to tell me or warn me before they just went into my account and deleted the picture.
he does also take issue with the policy itself, but as an aside not as his main point:
> Bigger picture: this seems like a ridiculous thing for Google to be policing. [...]
> This also seems like a slippery slope. In certain cultures, various hand gestures mean different things. Is Google also going to delete my profile picture if I have my fingers up to my chin, for example?