If you did grow up in the 60's as you say, then you know the Graduate was a complete and total judgmental reaction to the post-war generation who have material goods, but were, to paraphrase Mr. McGuire "One Word: Plastic."
Regardless, you are mistaking criticism for being judgmental. You are also mistaking holding a viewpoint contrary to yours as being negative. That is as silly as it is thin-skinned. Let's get one thing straight-- we aren't "haters," for not liking this ad. We simply have an opinion. If you don't like it, then move on.
The fact brands do not want to enable or defend or support or take sides at all with this behavior is admirable. They're basically saying "We don't care how many eyeballs your site pulls-- grow the fuck up."
Kind of a tangent, but here's what I find interesting. Sam Biddle is editor of Valleywag, right? When Valleywag started, according to their wiki page:
In its first post, Valleywag outed the fact that Google founder Larry Page and high-ranking employee Marissa Mayer had dated for months. It shortly followed that with the revelation that Google CEO Eric Schmidt had an apparently open marriage and had joined a church (as documented on a Web page in Google's cache) with a girlfriend. The point of these articles was that the reporters and editors who covered Silicon Valley were well aware of these relationships and their potential impact on Google's stock price and brand reputation. But they had tacitly agreed not to report them in order to curry favor with Google staff.
And yet now, when the same kind of collusion has been uncovered by the actual masses as opposed to the blogging elite, the same website is now trying to shrug it off as a big joke because "neckbeards" or something.
Is it just me or are more and more things on the internet quickly devolving?
Sounds amazing. Seeing as how they have such a great track record.
When I write about BitTorrent, I'm writing about BitTorrent, Inc, the fucking company, not the so-called neutral file sharing protocol. It's really not that difficult to understand. A protocol isn't interested in revenue because it's a protocol. But the company of the same name is. That's why they're selling ad space on their browser.
People are just being willfully ignorant to try and discredit something I've written without actually having read it.
Slight-of-hand meets smarminess. Dont pay attention to the greedy man behind the curtain. Just stare at the innovation.This paragraph from The Trichordist sums up Bit Torrent's B.S. nicely. Or Big Tech's business models in general.
How much money has Bit-Torrent invested in Radiohead’s career? Zero. But hey, they have distributed hundreds of millions of copies of the bands catalog to consumers without compensating the band a penny. Not one cent. Ev-er. And now they have the brass to charge artists a distribution fee for Bit Torrent Bundles? If Bit Torrent gave the artists the service for free, that would at least make some kind of sense. But as usual, Big Tech just heaps insult on injury on insult.
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