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could you please elaborate on the "disquieting things about its culture" I never personally found any, maybe I am missing something.
by elmar 9y ago
could you please elaborate on the "disquieting things about its culture" I never personally found any, maybe I am missing something.
- seppin 9y agoperhaps not the best place to discuss
- philipov 9y agoor else, on the other hand, the best place to discuss...
- throwaday 9y agoThrowaway acc, but maybe there's the case of Andrew Torba? He was obviously fed up with the culture at YC and posted this facebook comment remarking his distaste. "All of you: fuck off. Take your morally superior, elitist, virtue signaling bullshit and shove it. I call it like I see it, and I helped meme a President into office, cucks." https://www.buzzfeed.com/nitashatiku/trump-supporting-startup-ceo-kicked-out-of-y-combinator https://www.buzzfeed.com/nitashatiku/trump-supporting-startu... Torba was kicked out of YC "for speaking in a threatening, harassing way toward other YC founders". His reply: You cucks will be happy to know that YC has blacklisted me and removed me from the network to not trigger more founders. This is why I do what I do. This is why am loud and proud with my free speech and will continue to be. John Levy called me and said that because said "build the wall" I am now removed from the network. I guess YC has to build a wall to keep out people who want national borders. Sad! I don't know if this is considered "disquieting" but it is an example of someone being removed for their speech.
- tptacek 9y agoI read the Facebook thread that spurred Torba's removal from YC and I can't imagine any business in the world that would have retained someone who spoke to colleagues the way Torba did, so that's definitely not what disquiets me about YC.
- rvcamo 9y agoOh no I said "cuck" and called people "elitists" how terrible! The horror! I called it exactly as I saw it. They are more worried about virtue signaling and being politically correct than building businesses. I triggered international founders because god forbid I want national security for my own country, which happens to be the same country where YC is based and where most of YC's companies exist and thrive. Too damn bad. There are other conservatives/Trump supporting YC founders who are utterly terrified to speak publicly about their political beliefs after they saw what YC did to me. Also, I've had dozens of founders reach out to me and tell me that they changed their mind about applying to YC. I stand by what I said and I'd say it again.
- throwanem 9y agoI tried to vouch a sibling comment of Torba's, because shadowbanning people who call you out isn't going to change anyone's mind. If he's wrong, let him show himself to be so; attempting to no-platform him just keeps the question open. The comment stayed dead. So it goes.
- tptacek 9y agoThat's not "shadowbanning". First, if you "showdead=true", you can see the comments and who wrote them. Second, that sibling comment was flagged off the site by users, not by some insidious shadowbanning apparatus. The "shadowbanning" regime that Paul Graham ran involved people being quietly banned from the site without being told; they would write comments and the site would do its best to make them believe everyone could see those comments, when in fact nobody could.
- throwanem 9y agoA sibling comment of mine, not of yours. It's [dead], but not [flagged]. Not all dead comments get that way by user flags. Some users' comment histories reveal a point past which there are only stillborns. I'm not sure that referring to shadowbanning here in the past tense is accurate. And "insidious" is your word, not mine. I don't disagree with the practice in general. I do consider it probably counterproductive in this case.
- elmar 9y agopersonally I think Andrew Torba acted like a Cyberbully, the ban was well deserved.
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