Official 2020 US Election: Democratic Party Discussion

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HylianSwordsman said:
I feel this is relevant to both this thread and this forum:

https://www.techspot.com/news/83623-joe-biden-calls-game-developers-little-creeps-who.html

Moren said:

HylianSwordsman said:
I feel this is relevant to both this thread and this forum:

https://www.techspot.com/news/83623-joe-biden-calls-game-developers-little-creeps-who.html

Not to sound like a broken record, but this is yet another clickbait unfair characterization of Biden.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/17/opinion/joe-biden-nytimes-interview.html

"And you may recall, the criticism I got for meeting with the leaders in Silicon Valley, when I was trying to work out an agreement dealing with them protecting intellectual property for artists in the United States of America. And at one point, one of the little creeps sitting around that table, who was a multi- — close to a billionaire — who told me he was an artist because he was able to come up with games to teach you how to kill people, you know the ——

CW: Like video games.

Yeah, video games. And I was lectured by one of the senior leaders there that by saying if I insisted on what Leahy’d put together and we were, I thought we were going to fully support, that they would blow up the network, figuratively speaking. Have everybody contact. They get out and go out and contact the switchboard, just blow it up.

And then one of these righteous people said to me that, you know, “We are the economic engine of America. We are the ones.” And fortunately I had done a little homework before I went and I said, you know, I find it fascinating. As I added up the seven outfits, everyone’s there but Microsoft. I said, you have fewer people on your payroll than all the losses that General Motors just faced in the last quarter, of employees. So don’t lecture me about how you’ve created all this employment."

The "creeps" was a table full of Silicon Valley billionaires.

I agree. In fact, I think Kokatu had a great article on that matter: https://kotaku.com/unsolved-mystery-which-game-industry-exec-did-joe-bide-1841073390

When you read the article, you can see that not Biden was originally talking about games teaching about killing people, but the artist. They muse that the artist in question was probably John Riccitiello, then CEO of EA. That guy is an artist, alright! A con artist, to be precise! No wonder he creeped Biden out.

I don't like Biden, but I had misinformation and misrepresentation even more. So I just had to set this straight again.