{"id":2661,"date":"2014-04-02T09:45:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T23:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=2661"},"modified":"2014-04-02T10:21:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T00:21:44","slug":"oculus-vr-team-received-death-threats-after-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/oculus-vr-team-received-death-threats-after-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"Oculus VR Team Received Death Threats After Acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samit Sarkar at Polygon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The Oculus VR team&#8217;s acquisition by Facebook last week for $2 billion resulted in death threats and other abuse directed at the virtual reality firm, said company co-founder Palmer Luckey on Reddit this past weekend.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The subset of the gaming community that engages in this kind of aggressive, keyboard warrior bullshit really pisses me off.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s OK to disagree with a company&#8217;s direction. It&#8217;s not OK to threaten staff because you disagree. Not even close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samit Sarkar at Polygon: The Oculus VR team&#8217;s acquisition by Facebook last week for $2 billion resulted in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[386,193,747],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}