Linus Torvalds' criticism of social media is strong condemnation from a guy famous for his own admittedly 'not polite' behavior on public email lists.
,"People are different. I'm not polite, and I get upset easily but generally don't hold a grudge - I have these explosive emails."
So Torvalds calling out social media for encouraging bad behavior is ironic, to say the least. To be fair, though, as one of the most famous programmers in the world, he's been the target of his fair share of online abuse, too. In 2015, he made a cheesy, funny video where he"If you cannot prove your identity, your crazy rant on some social-media platform shouldn't be visible"
"It's easy to miss humor and sarcasm, but it's also very easy to overlook the reaction of the recipient, so you get things like flame wars, etc., that might not happen as easily with face-to-face interaction," he said. Not so with social media."The whole 'liking' and 'sharing' model is just garbage. There is no effort and no quality control. In fact, it's all geared to the reverse of quality control, with lowest common denominator targets, and click-bait, and things designed to generate an emotional response, often one of moral outrage," he said.
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