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That businessman/reality TV star who just won the New Hampshire primary is far from the only famous person addicted to sharing his current thoughts and mood on Twitter. When you do that, you're bound to eventually make a mistake that has consequences. This time it was Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist and co-founder of Netscape (and lead developer for the Mosaic Web browser before that), who got busted for tweeting a thought that shouldn't have left the hotel bar:
Anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people for decades. Why stop now?
Indians complained; evidently they've grown accustomed to having their own country. It was noticed that Andreessen sits on the board of Facebook, which has been unsuccessfully trying to peddle free Internet service (featuring Facebook, of course) to India for awhile. Oops. Mark Zuckerberg wasn't pleased.
Andreessen, a master of the multi-part tweet, quickly backpedaled. And the original tweet was deleted.
takyon: The Register's Andrew Orlowski has a partial defense of Andreessen's comments that you may find illuminating and/or entertaining.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 11 2016, @05:50PM
Wow, those are very nice words that his PR person wrote for him.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday February 11 2016, @06:58PM
> "I look forward to strengthening my connection to the country"
Translated: there's a freaking Billion personal data sources I want to tap!!!! And they won't let me spend money to tap them at no cost to them! No Cost! Free stuff for poor people! How dare they refuse? Those bastards are more heartless than the idiots who tell penniless people in Flint that it's better to have bottled water than drink off their own taps!