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Uber Threatens To Do 'Opposition Research' On Journalists
Nerval's Lobster writes A senior executive at Uber reportedly told a Buzzfeed writer that the company "should consider hiring a team of opposition researchers to dig up dirt on its critics in the media — and specifically to spread details of the personal life of a female journalist who has criticized the company." As detailed by the executive, Uber would spend a million dollars on the effort, which would involve "four top opposition researchers and four journalists," and dig into personal lives and families. Uber has pushed back against the report, insisting that it's never done opposition research, but the idea of any company engaging in such practices seems more like something Nixon would have dreamed up at his worst than a strategy by a "disruptive" startup.
The female journalist discussed made a public accusation: Sarah Lacy, the editor of the Silicon Valley website PandoDaily, a sometimes combative voice inside the industry. Lacy recently accused Uber of “sexism and misogyny.” She wrote that she was deleting her Uber app after BuzzFeed News reported that Uber appeared to be working with a French escort service. “I don’t know how many more signals we need that the company simply doesn’t respect us or prioritize our safety,” she wrote. I can't find any journalism to back the statements of the reporter so can't determine if this is an actual issue. The claim of misogyny and Uber working with a French escort service is valid or an attack? (The article Buzzfeed links is a pissing match, not journalism. Google shows no articles by the person or magazine given my search terms[I tried many].)
Every liberal movement is ultimately doomed now, because it's only a matter of time before the SJW's, professional victims, white knights, and various groups of the ever-oppressed show up a consume it with their own grandstanding.
God, it's good to be a conservative. It's great to be on the team that always wins. It must really suck to be a liberal, and be on the team that always end up losing, even when it wins. You dumb fucks could win 90% control of the House and Senate and the Presidency in an election--and one week later you would be so busy fighting among yourselves and fracturing into various competing factions that we Republicans would effectively be in charge again. You see, we're winners and you're losers. When we take charge, we don't allow a bunch of competing causniks to split our movement with bickering over whether enough LGBT faggots are in the leadership, or whether our policies are "misogynist," or whether we're paying too much attention to one oppressed minority over another. We tell our faggots, women, niggers, crybabies, etc. to toe the party line or GTFO--something you will never have the balls to do. This is, once gain, because we're winners and you're losers.