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>So, instead of people attaching him for absurdly hyping the model, they attached the model as being DANGEROUS

Because it's considered rude to attack people directly; less offensive to say "this product sucks" than "you suck".

You are attacking his entire team that way. They are people too

Blatantly false claims and "hype" need to be addressed immediately and strongly when they're being pushed into places that actually matter, like city streets and medical science.

It may hurt their pride, but it’s not attacking them, it’s criticizing the product.

Accusing people of making a Dangerous product is just that, an accusation.

That 's a very passiveaggressive way to say "you re overhyping"

Criticizing a product doesn’t imply that you’re accusing anyone of anything.

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