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    Why buy them out, when we ourselves are the primary asset? Commented Jun 17, 2023 at 18:27
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    @kaya3-supportthestrike To manage that asset properly, i.e., it would better insure the corporate pecuniary interests are a positive sum game. A bit like owning a home rather than squatting in an abandoned one. Commented Jun 17, 2023 at 18:37
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    meta.stackexchange.com/questions/377908/… Commented Jun 18, 2023 at 1:42
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    By "ESG" do you mean en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… ? Commented Jun 19, 2023 at 9:19
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    ESG = Environmental, social, and corporate governance. ... "also known as environmental, social, governance, is a business framework for considering environmental issues and social issues in the context of corporate governance. It is designed to be embedded into an organization's strategy that considers the needs and ways in which to generate value for all organizational stakeholders (such as employees, customers, suppliers, and financiers)." Commented Jun 19, 2023 at 21:15
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    Re "Prosus is an ESG activist investment firm": Who says that? Are you sure they are not solely driven by quarterly results? Commented Jun 19, 2023 at 21:19
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    If they were, how is it connected to the current crisis? It sounds more like an opportunity to air a particular political view. Commented Jun 19, 2023 at 21:23
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    @This_is_NOT_a_forum Read their website, they say it themselves. Their activist policies are reflected here. This isn’t just about the new AI policy, it comes with a portfolio of other activist policies, e.g., climate change, pronoun usage, Covid-19 propaganda, and lately AI. To turn this around and say that it is I who is airing a particular political view is to ignore the fact that you are being told what you are allowed to think for a slew of issues. I didn't choose the issues, but I will be dammed if I will ignore them all with the exception of one of them that you object to. Commented Jun 20, 2023 at 3:31
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    Do you truly believe the SE users will invest in SE under the current circumstances ? Why would I invest my money in SE after seeing a lot of spam posts and ChatGPT posts ? Commented Jun 22, 2023 at 8:25
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    @Nobody They are acting exactly like countless companies did around the IT hype early 2000s. They have no goals or long term strategies, just mindlessly chasing a buzzword hype. The only thing of substance is to repeat the buzzword as much as possible - that's the entirely business model. It's just castles made of sand with a label on top of it, just switch the label from "IT" to "AI" or any other fashionable buzzword. All such companies sooner or later violently crash into bankruptcy and the investors lose all their money. Why would they do it? Because scamming is as old as mankind itself. Commented Jun 22, 2023 at 13:48
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    As for buying SE, the company has zero value to the community. All content is open license. A non-profit, open source community like Codidact can legally just pull the data from SE just fine, as long as there is attribution to the original author. Some sites like writing.codidact.com did just that - exported the entire content from writing.stackexchange.com and started anew. Why pay $1.8 billion when you can have it for free. This was a failsafe that Atwood/Spolsky made on purpose, in case SO would turn into complete a**hats in the future. Commented Jun 22, 2023 at 13:54
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    @Nobody It can be compared to Reddit, which is destroying the foundation of the site's value, in the hope that they'll be able to sell it before the top floors collapse, and they'll be able to misrepresent the operating expenses to the person they sell it to, because there will be no foundations. Commented Jun 22, 2023 at 20:04
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    @Lundin Wow. So without the good will of its users, SO (SE) is essentially worthless. It wouldn't take much money to start over with a better administration. I've seen that idea presented here before with the Monica Cellio incident. If I had to guess, that may happen this time, people are tired of fighting nonsense. Commented Jun 22, 2023 at 20:04
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    @Nobody One can compare SO with Vice that was, at one point, evaluated at $5.7 billion. Vice was just bought out of bankruptcy for $222 million or 3.9% of what was once claimed. Commented Jun 23, 2023 at 23:13
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    What do you mean by "poisoned"? Commented Jul 14, 2023 at 16:31