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Re:WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against... by hudixt on Sunday November 22, 2020 @06:53AM (#25176753)
What is WhiteHat JR?

It teaches coding to kids of age 6 charging upto 1500$ for 100 clases.

To sum up, this is very high amount from any standar, parents take loan to fund this. Second, they use black hat marketing tactics claiming 10year old student now earns million of dollars.

I'm not sure if there tactics are even legal. Platforms like FB, Google should fact-check on ads.

Seriously how can you believe a kid is earning 10mn$ a year. And has no mention anywhere on the web.

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Re:WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against... by flak48 on Sunday November 22, 2020 @07:13AM (#25176841)
And they are charging $1500 just to read out scripts along with freely available code.org tutorials
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Re:WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against... by damnencryption on Sunday November 22, 2020 @07:17AM (#25176866)
See the CEO talking on slack about creating an app: https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/jyt7et/whitehatjr_fi...
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Re:WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against... by shi314 on Sunday November 22, 2020 @07:13AM (#25176845)
I know a 12yo Indian kid who is maintaining Ubuntu Unity. Though, I am pretty sure he didn't study at WhiteHatJr.
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Re:WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against... by segfaultbuserr on Sunday November 22, 2020 @08:32AM (#25177296)
You should say "by not studying at WhiteHatJr, it enabled him to be a maintainer of Ubuntu Unity". ;-)
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Re:WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against... by kkarakk on Sunday November 22, 2020 @08:32AM (#25177295)
unless you're posting names/social media handles i'm guessing you're a whitehat jr employee.

i pre-emptively apologise, don't sue me.

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Re:WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against... by shi314 on Sunday November 22, 2020 @09:53AM (#25177874)
You could check out at Ubuntu discourse. His username is rs2009.

project website: www.ubuntuunity.org

I, by no means support such sleazy company.

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Re:WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against... by segfaultbuserr on Sunday November 22, 2020 @08:36AM (#25177328)
The original post reads "he didn't study at WhiteHatJr". I think it was a satire, as I found it was a pretty funny remark. I believe you are pointing your finger at the wrong person.
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Re:WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against... by kkarakk on Sunday November 22, 2020 @07:28PM (#25182388)
actually i was just continuing the satire but it didn't come across as such :) que sera sera
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Re:WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against... by segfaultbuserr on Monday November 23, 2020 @02:43AM (#25184415)
Poe's Law in action [0]. Could be helpful if you used the "/s" sarcasm mark.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

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