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> YC is, ultimately, not responsible for what these startups choose to do. Of course they're responsible for their investments; they're just not liable. YC has
by throwaway27448 7mo ago
> YC is, ultimately, not responsible for what these startups choose to do.
Of course they're responsible for their investments; they're just not liable. YC has a lot to answer for in the damage it's wreaked over the years.
- hdgvhicv 7mo agoThe “I just have the arsonist the match, I didn’t tel him to strike it” approach of tech bros has caused untold damage to the world over the last 20 Years.
- senko 7mo ago> YC has a lot to answer for in the damage it's wreaked over the years. What damage is that? (excluding the present case)
- officialchicken 7mo ago> What damage is that? (excluding the present case) That seems to be an introspective question.
- 1attice 7mo agoExtrospection is valid spection
- barry-cotter 7mo agoThey’re responsible for the existence of scribd. Not aware of any other obviously socially net negative companies.
- transcriptase 7mo agoFor the uninformed what’s the deal with scribd?
- tim333 7mo agoScribd are quite annoying. The pitch was "the YouTube for documents" allowing stuff to be posted and shared but they tend to try and get subscription money off you to see anything unlike the likes of YouTube.
- CamperBob2 7mo agoScribd scrapes the web of all the .PDFs that it can find, then gates them behind a paywall and SEOs their way to the top of Google's rankings. That's it, that's all they do. They run a zero value tollbooth with other peoples' IP, taking advantage of users who don't have the search-fu to hunt down the documents themselves. They should pretty much die in a grease fire.
- energy123 7mo agoReddit
- Zak 7mo agoI think when making the claim a company is a net negative, it's necessary to explore what would have happened if the company hadn't been founded. I find it unlikely, for example that there would not be a dominant centralized forum platform. People would have certainly started problematic communities on the dominant platform, and it's unlikely a platform with strict moderation would have gained dominance before 2015 or so. I do think a dominant player would have been established by 2015. Do you think whatever you see as harmful about Reddit would not have occurred if the company didn't exist?
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- user_7832 7mo agoHow about the privacy darling Flock?
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