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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

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...