• steelplatedmech@piefed.ca
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    18 hours ago

    I wouldn’t be surprised to see NVIDIA themselves wanting people to be making memes about Jensen’s affair and make that the entire punchline if it leads to the public being unaware of the background details that could actually hurt the stock.

    And makes it easier to just bribe the US administration to not investigate further, and not cause further uproar if export violations is something people are not aware of.

    Companies have attempted to manipulate media over less trivial things like video game marketing. https://kotaku.com/trap-plan-marketing-astroturf-warrobots-fake-reddit-accounts-posts-2000642503

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      Yeah, I wouldn’t be either.

      Honestly I thought the export restrictions were stupid nonsense anyway, so in this particular case if the DOJ looked away or he got a pardon or something, I could live with that. It’s still not okay for for someone like Jensen to just ignore the law, but that shouldn’t have been law anyway.

      • steelplatedmech@piefed.ca
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        8 hours ago

        Regular people like us don’t get to use the it shouldn’t be law excuse. He’ll just bribe his way out unlike us who’d get the book thrown at our way.