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Coinbase's political non-activism policy announcement at the end of September had no bearing on this article. Investigations into racial discrimination or sexu

Coinbase's political non-activism policy announcement at the end of September had no bearing on this article. Investigations into racial discrimination or sexual harassment complaints take months (see for example, at Riot Games, an internal investigation took almost 5 months even though most of the facts were already publicly known at the start of the investigation. https://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/26686134/how-got-here-line-riot-games-cultural-controversy https://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/26686134/how-got-her...). This means that the race complaints predated the September announcement. Additionally, given that investigative pieces generally involve months of investigation, fact-checking, re-writing, it's very likely that this article was already being researched or written at the time of Coinbase's original political non-activism announcement.

thu2111 6y ago
Doubtful the NYT would spend >2 months on a story about one relatively small company. Journalist time isn't free. The timing does look very odd and let's face it, the NYT has a lot of people who would absolutely hate a tech firm standing up to their agenda in the way Coinbase has done. Having successfully politicised the NYT they'd certainly feel entitled to do the same everywhere else. The 100% idpol nature of the story also lends weight to this theory. I very much doubt that Coinbase is actually racist against blacks (er, sorry, Blacks). Never encountered a tech company that was.
- gamblor956 6y ago
  None of what you said makes sense, and Coinbase isn't standing up to any hidden agenda. It's simply being called it for is corporate behavior. And based on it's past behavior, it's likely the NYT report is true.
  - thu2111 6y ago
    What past behaviour? Do you have any evidence that anyone at Coinbase is geniunely racist in any way at all? I've never heard such accusations before. On the other hand, leftists spuriously accusing people of being racist happens all the time. My prior for such accusations being true is like 0.05
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thu2111 6y ago

Doubtful the NYT would spend >2 months on a story about one relatively small company. Journalist time isn't free. The timing does look very odd and let's face it, the NYT has a lot of people who would absolutely hate a tech firm standing up to their agenda in the way Coinbase has done. Having successfully politicised the NYT they'd certainly feel entitled to do the same everywhere else. The 100% idpol nature of the story also lends weight to this theory. I very much doubt that Coinbase is actually racist against blacks (er, sorry, Blacks). Never encountered a tech company that was.

gamblor956 6y ago
None of what you said makes sense, and Coinbase isn't standing up to any hidden agenda. It's simply being called it for is corporate behavior. And based on it's past behavior, it's likely the NYT report is true.
- thu2111 6y ago
  What past behaviour? Do you have any evidence that anyone at Coinbase is geniunely racist in any way at all? I've never heard such accusations before. On the other hand, leftists spuriously accusing people of being racist happens all the time. My prior for such accusations being true is like 0.05

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