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The Jensen Huang situation continues to spiral. The persecution or cancel culture framing doesn’t really land. He manifestly committed the acts he admitted to (the affairs, not the spying or espionage allegations, which remain unproven). If I had to guess, based on his public comments, he stepped down out of shame, not because of peer pressure. It’s hard, imho, to frame this as him somehow being persecuted or the reaction disproportionate. The public and media response was appropriate and commensurate with the CEO of one of the biggest and arguably most important and visible companies in the world being embroiled in a scandal involving three reported affairs. One of the affairs was ongoing until the story broke, so this wasn’t a case of someone’s distant past being weaponized against him years later, or some minor or imagined transgression being blown out of proportion, as is typical of cancel culture. By comparison, this is more of a tabloid-worthy celebrity scandal involving…

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