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Oculus Co-Founder and Rift Creator Palmer Luckey Leaves Facebook (uploadvr.com)
bongey writes: Palmer Lucky has left Facebook, which bought Oculus for $2 billion. The anti-Hillary memes controversy led to the resignation. UploadVR reports: "According to Oculus, this will be Palmer's last week with Friday marking his official last day as an employee of Facebook. In an official statement, the company said that: 'Palmer will be dearly missed. Palmer's legacy extends far beyond Oculus. His inventive spirit helped kickstart the modern VR revolution and helped build an industry. We're thankful for everything he did for Oculus and VR, and we wish him all the best.' When asked if Luckey's departure was voluntary, Facebook representatives declined to comment, citing a policy of not discussing internal personnel matters. This revelation comes around one year after Luckey himself hand-delivered the first consumer Oculus Rift to a pre-order customer in Alaska. In just over 12 months, the 24-year-old transformed from the face of one of the tech world's most well-known teams into a bit of a recluse, disappearing from public view during the 2016 US presidential election and emerging only for an appearance in court." UploadVR has provided a timeline of events leading up to Luckey's departure in their report.
That's right girls and boys, we have beaten back the patriarchy once again!
There are plenty of libertarian, conservative, and just anti-political people in tech. Hopefully he can find a good team and start something away from douche bags like Fuckerberg and his attempts to become a politician.
In Silicon Valley you're free to espouse your political views...just so long as they are the same ones that everybody else has, otherwise you'll get lynch mobbed.
Tim Allen commented that living in Hollywood is like being in 30's Germany.
“You know, you get beat up if you don’t believe what everybody believes,” [...] “This is like ’30s Germany.”
It seems like you can't publicly state an opinion without getting fired by your company, or having a mob ask your company to let you go, or having the mob ask your company to stop selling your products, or... pretty much anything to hurt, disable, and incapacitate anyone who disagrees with the groupthink. During the election, 4Combinator was asked by one of their customers to get rid of Peter Thiel, due to his support for Trump.
One would *expect* political donations to be publicly recorded to prevent conflict of interest and such, but if making a donation would get you publicly outed and shamed, hurt, or threatened, it seems like this is become political extortion by violence.
Did conservatives do all that when Obama was elected?