Its real somehow: https://xcancel.com/Shedletsky/status/1886563357249212846#m

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A tweet by Jon sheletsky (@shedletsky) saying "Silicon Valley built the modern world. Why shouldn’t we run it?. The tweet has 658k views, 70 bookmarks, 70 likes, 460 retweets/quotes and 694 replies. It was posted at 6:52 PM, 2/3/25.

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    1 month ago

    It’s a small comfort that even Twitter is giving this take the reception it deserves.

    It’s kind of wholesome. People coming together to tell the guy who built a child-exploiting, underaged-gambling “game” for kids to get fucked brings a tear to my eye.

    Founding Roblox isn’t exactly building the interstate highway system, creating antibiotics, or inventing the telephone, John.

    And look where it’s gotten us. Drunk on arrogance and the suffering of millions

    You made Roblox in order to monetize children’s naivety. We’re not giving you the nuclear codes for shit

    Because you’re a bunch of sociopaths with a Messiah complex

    You build a giant ad platform and called it innovation. You’re modern day carnival barkers. Go fuck yourself