- By Vikas Yadav
- Sun, 12 May 2024 03:23 PM (IST)
- Source:IANS
Ola Founder Bhavish Aggarwal recently slammed the professional networking site LinkedIn for removing his post without prior notice. Days after the social media incident, several tech leaders have expressed support for the Ola CEO after his rough experience with the Microsoft-owned platform. For context, the episode started after Aggarwal criticised the platform and said its AI imposes a political ideology on Indian users, which is "unsafe" and "sinister".
In the concerned post, Aggarwal expressed his thoughts on gender pronouns based on a response shared by LinkedIn's AI where the bot used 'they' and 'their' to address him. The CEO also shared Ola will not depend on Microsoft Azure servers for cloud-based processing. Several tech faces expressed their views on the latest happening.
As a response to the Ola CEO's claims that the platform is "bullying Indians", Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu said: "We in India have to strongly resist this woke imperialism. It is best understood as a fanatical religious doctrine that masquerades as a socio-political movement." Unacademy CEO Gaurav Munjal also slammed LinkedIn in his post.
On @Linkedin, @Microsoft and their wokeness.
— Bhavish Aggarwal (@bhash) May 11, 2024
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In a detailed post yesterday, Aggarwal said: "I feel concerned that my life will be governed by western Big Tech monopolies and we will be culturally subsumed as the above experience shows." The CEO said it will be working with the developer community in India to build a DPI social media framework.
"The only 'community guidelines' should be the Indian law. No corporate person should be able to decide what will be banned. Data should be owned by the creators instead of being owned by the corporates who make money using our data and then lecture us on 'community guidelines'," he added. "We've decided to move our entire workload out of Azure to our own @Krutrim cloud within the next week."
With inputs from IANS
