Elon Musk is urgent Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to look into Blizzard staff who criticized Charlie Kirk after his loss of life. Musk’s publish quotes an X thread itemizing names and screenshots of the builders.
Musk’s direct query to Nadella follows a broader censorship crackdown from Republicans focusing on people celebrating Kirk’s loss of life or criticizing him. Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) mentioned he would use “Congressional authority and each affect with massive tech platforms to mandate fast ban for all times of each publish or commenter that belittled the assassination of Charlie Kirk.”
Former Blizzard developer Mark Kern, who goes by “Grummz” on-line and ceaselessly posts about right-wing points on X, quoted the original thread, claiming that the screenshotted posts confirmed Blizzard staff “trashing” Kirk. Musk then quoted the publish himself together with his query to Nadella.
“We’re conscious of the views expressed by a small subset of our staff concerning latest occasions,” Microsoft mentioned in a post on X. The publish isn’t a reply to Musk however was shared on its fundamental @Microsoft web page. “We take issues like this very significantly and we’re at the moment reviewing every particular person state of affairs. Feedback celebrating violence towards anybody are unacceptable and don’t align with our values.” (The screenshots within the thread shared by Musk don’t have a good time the capturing towards Kirk.) Nadella has not replied to Musk publicly as of this writing.