You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think ‘oh, the lawnmower hates me’ – lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don’t fall into that trap about Oracle.
Timestamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=38m34s

Should we be giving social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, or Reddit the benefit of a doubt?

Some background context about the original video speaker and presentation:

• Comment by Flenser
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10039202