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Ok well settle your case if you wish. But that was what YC themselves claimed, according to this: https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/12/pro-trump-ceo-gets-booted-fr

• tptacek 9y ago
  I don't believe that link supports your claim.
  • wallace_f 9y ago
    Here is the exact text from the article. It states exactly what I already said it does: >While Torba paints this as a free speech issue, YC told BuzzFeed that he was kicked out for “for speaking in a threatening, harassing way toward other YC founders” — particularly in this Facebook comment: >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.
    • tptacek 9y ago
      I think we're talking past each other. I agree that's why YC banned him. I agree that he said that thing on the Facebook thread. But he said other things as well, and, apparently, other things prior to that Facebook thread.
    • ekiru 9y ago
      That TechCrunch article cites BuzzFeed as its source for the claim that YC said that they kicked him out particularly for that comment, but I don't see that in the linked BuzzFeed article [1]. It says that he was kicked out "for violating its harassment policy", and that this occurred after the Facebook comment, but I don't see any statement in the BuzzFeed article that YC mentioned that comment in particular. I may be missing it, though. [1]: https://www.buzzfeed.com/nitashatiku/trump-supporting-startup-ceo-kicked-out-of-y-combinator https://www.buzzfeed.com/nitashatiku/trump-supporting-startu...