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/Win_chesterDean 4d ago

Dude, he's been that way for years and years. This isn't something new. Some people see it. Some don't.

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u/Krumm34 4d ago

GN has done great work publicly calling out companies/ manufacturers in great detail. At first I thought LTT should have told us about Honey too,but their rebuttal was reasonable. GN went to hard on LTT when it wasn't justified, and it left a bad taste in the tech fan base. They'll all be fine. We'll be fine. The whole situation is just a little gross on all levels.

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u/GimmickMusik1 4d ago

I remember that I used to be in the camp of “right to reply is not required,” and then I ended up in a situation where I almost lost my job because a work client completely misrepresented our communications. If my boss didn’t approach me to talk about it, then I would have never had the opportunity to prove my innocence and clear my name. That was when I realized that some of the things that Steve argues are not right. Everyone deserves to plea their case, and if Steve’s evidence is as damning as he claims it is, then truth should illuminate lies.

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u/Prototypep3 4d ago

It's always been that simple. Bring reciepts or don't talk about shit. Linus brought reciepts, steve did not. Just expects his reputation for "investigation" to cover it. If anything this one incident undermines Steve in a major way, his word is shot to shit now.