Raspberry Pi users are upset the company hired a former police officer who previously used the products to covertly surveil targets and then downplayed or trivialized complaints.
. The publication spoke with Joe Bowser, a computer scientist that has long loved Raspberry Pis for a variety of tasks, but who will no longer use the company’s products based on the Roberts hire.
“You’re basically telling me and people like me who do privacy work and activist work that you’re anti-that,” Bowser tells“You’re alienating a large chunk of your customers by going pro-cop. The company clearly doesn’t know how their products are being used in the world. A lot of people who use it are anti-authoritarian, anti-surveillance, and don’t like police brutality. And they’re actively building tools using the Raspberry Pi and others against those things.
More than the hire, it appears to be Rasperry Pi’s response to criticism that has most users upset. Multiple users on Twitter are reporting that in response to voicing concerns, the company is blocking them. “A computing company hired a cop who turned your RPis into spy devices. You expect people to continue buying your computers which DEFINITELY AREN’T spying on them?” Twitter user“How can you so badly misunderstand the market you’re in?” Azuaron continues. “Most RPi customers aren’t cops, they’re small time makers and social outsiders that are trying to avoid major manufacturers due to their constant tracking and exploitation of our data, aka PEOPLE WHO HATE SURVEILLANCE.
If the company isn’t outright blocking users, it is supposedly responding in a way that doesn’t appear to take complaints seriously.Foundation replied with a lot of snakiness to their community members in which I mentioned perhaps that was not the smartest thing from a business and community perspective as you can see.
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