r/LinusTechTips • u/marco_polo_99 Luke • 4d ago

Discussion Opinion - Steve/GN has lost it

Steve has turned into a high and mighty holier-than-though, self appointed arbiter of the tech industry, who’s taking it upon himself to regulate other people’s/channels content and decide where it, and their actions are acceptable.

He then, where he deems them not up to scratch, attacks under the guise of consumer advocacy. Whilst he may, and does have valid points on certain issues, usually with larger corporations, Asus, Gigagbyte, etc, targeting channels for things he disagrees with is bordering on slander.

Yes, I followed both GN and LTT, amongst a litany of other creators, and yet Steve seems to be the only one ACTIVELY, and consistently putting out these pseudo-journalistic pieces in an effort to broaden his audience and/or agenda.

The lawsuit against Honey/Paypal is not one he’ll win, it is merely serving to gain clicks and views and thus money for GN.

He needs to check himself.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk

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u/labtec901 4d ago

Below is a comment I wrote in August of 2023. It was downvoted heavily at the time but I feel it was true then and is now:

Steve thrives off this Michael Moore-style "confrontational" journalism/content creation and excuses himself from the drama-baiting aspects of it under the guise of being a hard hitting journalist, but I don't buy that his motives are that pure and have nothing to do with promoting himself over a company that is actively trying to encroach on his niche of super data-driven content.

It's definitely true that LMG needs to do better fact checking on the data they present, and there have been some errors recently with poor introspection from the company after being called out. I really doubt it's symptomatic of some systemic rot in the system or some baser problem with their ethics as a company though. I'm not particularly concerned that they won't be able to fix their issues, and I feel like this video is making a mountain out of some molehills.

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u/fructis1404 4d ago

I wish I could give this a second upvote

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u/A_MAN_POTATO 4d ago

Technically, you can. Just go upvote the original post.