Oh, I missed your actual question: I don't have a problem with it at all. Sam has some political opinions personally which I disagree with (and so do most other

Oh, I missed your actual question: I don't have a problem with it at all. Sam has some political opinions personally which I disagree with (and so do most other people, in different ways), and as long as they're clearly personal and not organizational views, great. In the case of immigration, that's clearly a YC position as well -- if you look at the percentage of YC founders who are immigrants, immigrants in early employee roles, and international markets, it would be negligent for YC to not be pushing for sane immigration rules. While the status quo isn't great, either, it's quite reasonable to criticize changes which also don't make things better. SOPA/PIPA, spying, etc. are all critical issues for YC and other groups of tech companies. Stuff like 2A, abortion, etc. isn't, even though a lot of people care about those.