The reason I'm writing today is the decision, relayed by your customer support team, to pull advertising for Intel RealSense Technology from the online publication for game industry professionals, Gamasutra.com.
I am very disappointed in your response to important cultural criticism that is driving our field forward. It is especially dismaying that you would pull support from the site on the basis of a single article and the complaints of a small, bigoted group.
The writing of critics such as Leigh Alexander, Mattie Brice, Robert Yang, and Anita Sarkeesian is essential to the growth of the gaming and computing industry and vital to our wider cultural discourse. It is shameful that a major corporation would run away from this discourse, especially if it purports to be interested in developing the technologies of the future.
The technologies of the future are inherently bound up in the culture of the future. They do not exist apart from racism, sexism, and classism. By pretending that technology can be separate, by stepping away from the often uncomfortable discourse around those issues, Intel implicitly supports systemic racism, sexism, and classism.
Don't run away. Acknowledge that your technology exists in a messy world, and see if it can do anything to help.
Written in response to Intel’s recent failure.