Y Combinator blacklists founder of Gab.ai
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Y Combinator blacklists founder of Gab.ai
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#2Important context: Said founder entered YC working on an ad optimization platform, but recently pivoted to Twitter for the alt-right.
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#3Sounds like YC is building their own wall
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#4Important context: Said founder entered YC working on an ad optimization platform, but recently pivoted to Twitter for the alt-right.
Wrong.
It's the Twitter for free speech.
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#5Funny how YC is quickly becoming the antithesis of all the great PG essays..
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#7From the screenshot he himself provided [1], it looks like he was confronted about making people at YC feel unsafe, and responded by saying they "shouldn't be on the internet".
Contrarian views are one thing. Addressing the people who fund your company like a belligerent troll is another.
You're entitled to free speech, you're not entitled to a captive ear to hear it.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wrong. It's the Twitter for free speech.
...you mean Twitter?
Twitter has been extremely heavy on censorship this year. Dozens of high-profile users banned, hundreds 'shadow-banned', and unbelievable levels of hashtag manipulation. Twitter is not in favor of free speech, on top of being a terrible business.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
...you mean Twitter?
Twitter has been extremely heavy on censorship this year. Dozens of high-profile users banned, hundreds 'shadow-banned', and unbelievable levels of hashtag manipulation. Twitter is not in favor of free speech, on top of being a terrible business.
Which users were banned for expression of opinions? I initially wrote "high profile", following your comment, but I don't actually care. High profile or not, that would make me worry.
I know Milo was banned based on the accusations that he'd orchestrated harassment of Leslie Jones, but I haven't heard of anyone being banned simply for expressing a political position.
As far as hashtag manipulation goes, I'm not sure what you mean. If you just mean they don't put some hashtags on trending, that may or may not be a bad approach to promoting healthy debate, but it's not a free speech issue.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wrong. It's the Twitter for free speech.
...you mean Twitter?
Twitter shadowbanned me for posting details of child abuse I experienced that left me disabled. These details included the names of people involved and summaries of acts committed against me. Some of the principals in these acts and all of the accessories to them are employees of a school board, police department, city government, and political boards. I posted links to articles from local media showing that there's a culture of child abuse in the city and that it still pervades more than 25 years after I was abused. I identified a certain juvenile detention facility and explained how it was designed to be and operated as a wholesale child abuse factory. I posted a report from the Department of Justice calling out the state on the ways that it abuses children.
Twitter apparently thinks that trying to effect positive change, to-wit, ending the wide scale child abuse and holding the abusers accountable to law, is a bad thing.