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The acccused and the accuser both tweeted extensively about this, but only one side is covered in the article. Great journalism.
by gfodor 5y ago
The acccused and the accuser both tweeted extensively about this, but only one side is covered in the article. Great journalism.
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- dhimes 5y agoThe article says YC declined to comment.
- gfodor 5y agoI’m not talking about YC I’m talking about the person accused of lying to get the vaccine. They claimed the accusation is false and explained why. The article fails to mention that despite the fact they sourced the accusation from the same place the defense was (Twitter.) It’s selective reporting without a doubt, but I won’t guess a motive. intent, or cause.
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- addicted 5y agoBecause the problem being raised isn’t whether the “accused” was correct, or the “accuser” was correct. The problem being raised is that the mere act of making an accusation is sufficient to kick someone out of Ycombinator.
- dougSF70 5y agoWhat I find baffling is that PG is so against cancel culture. Approx. 1 in 10 of his tweets are railing against this phenomenon. Yet in the YC community cancel culture is permitted. Admittedly they are not one and the same (YC and PG) but it does undermine the credibility of the organization to go against on of its founder's principles.
- gfodor 5y agoSpeech in and of itself isn’t what I’d imagine is the argument for getting the boot, it’s posting something publicly that will inevitably direct an internet mob onto or cause the media to dox and slander a founder in YC. This is particularly unethical where it seems fairly debatable if the accusation is true, or even that the grounds of the accusation (the ethics involved) are objective.
- dougSF70 5y agoPosting comments on the internet can be a high risk activity - which is my cat memes are so popular - it is not the right medium for a) bragging about unethical behavior or b) denouncing others. I understand the freedom of speech arguments but this comes from a time when there was no broadcast media and no permanent public record of what you said.
- asimpletune 5y agoNo the problem is they in bad faith went public on Twitter about their colleagues. It’s pretty clear from the original thread that this wasn’t merited. I know I wouldn’t want people like that in my YC class, and I especially wouldn’t if I were an investor.