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Elsewhere in the thread this article with an embedded video was linked: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64618791 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-6461879
by sugarpile 3y ago
Elsewhere in the thread this article with an embedded video was linked: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64618791 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64618791
The video, showing a BBC “journalist” attempting to ambush Leif, is one of the most… existentially disgusting? videos I’ve seen in a long, long time.
It’s so utterly performative. Such a transparent attempt by the “journalist” at painting himself as a certain sort of person. Not a single genuine emotion, action, expression, or word. Absolutely soulless and desperate attempt to virtue signal in the even more desperate hope of furthering his career. This “man” is no better than someone selling themselves on onlyfans. Actually, I’d posit he’s worse: the entire schtick requires disingenuous postering.
I don’t know what to do when seeing stuff like this. It’s depressing. I hope one day there’s a return to a much smaller internet and these people deign to just leave us alone. He’s a sad man and the fact his doing this will may well advantage him is even sadder. I guess I’ll go take a walk.
- brailsafe 3y agoEven more disconcerting is the possibility they believe they're pursuing righteousness genuinely rather than just for the reward.
- _cs2017_ 3y agoThe reporter, Joe Tidy, isn't virtue signaling. He is an honest zealot full of righteous fury. He is 100% confident he's right, just like those who killed heretics during crusades a couple thousand years ago, burned witches a few hundred years ago, or exterminated capitalists as part of Cambodian Khmer Rouge a few decades ago.
- WesolyKubeczek 3y agoHe must be stopped at all cost.
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- falsenapkin 3y agoIn that video he asserts through the closed door that Omegle hasn't done anything "for the children" and then in the article they have one measly line about how Omegle actually has been productive on that front. The text now on the Omegle site seems to support that they did what they could as well. Of course they're not going to get a good conversation with him when that's how they're going to frame it compared to reality. Whether Omegle was doing enough or should exist to begin with are different arguments but the premise of "Omegle is doing nothing" appears very wrong and I imagine offensive to creator/employees.
- coffeesque 3y ago[flagged]
- phendrenad2 3y ago"He was definitely home, all the blinds were drawn" 5 minutes later, Leif is seen going from his car to his house You can't make this stuff up. Every time I see a BBC clip it's something ridiculous. There's probably a good business opportunity doing a mystery science theater 3000 version of BBC news at this point.
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