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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) by archfeld on Thursday February 11 2016, @11:23PM
At what point will PC overtake the right to free speech and the ability to express your opinion, or has it already ?
No one is going to like everything you say, but why do these weenies cave in and retract their opinions ?
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 12 2016, @12:43AM
Because the right to free speech does not excuse one from the consequences of exercising said right.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 12 2016, @04:01PM
And by the same argument, you have the right to be a homosexual in Russia, just not the right to be free of the consequences of exercising said right.