Re:'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Ga...
by publius_0xf3 on Thursday February 01, 2024 @11:42PM
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>This is nothing more than activist journalists hating successful people for leading a stand against a self-destructive ideology ruining lives.
There's plenty of people in this very thread who profess a sympathy for Tan's causes but think his drunken remarks are deplorable and reflect poorly on him, even if not legally actionable. I'm among them.
Wagon-circling is a sad pathology of politics. Nobility requires that we rise above it.
Re:'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Ga...
by mistermann on Thursday February 01, 2024 @11:48PM
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So too with the premature formation of conclusions.
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Re:'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Ga...
by dang on Thursday February 01, 2024 @11:27PM
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HN is different from Twitter. The reason users (correctly) flag such comments here is that we're trying for a specific kind of site (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). One thing I often say (to a certain type of commenter) is that this isn't an ethical or moral rule—it's more like a game. Different games have different rules. If you're playing chess you don't get to tackle the bishop.
If Garry or anyone else had posted that on HN, users would certainly have flagged it, and we wouldn't override that.
No DA is going to waste their time pursing this, it's a guaranteed loss, especially against elected government officials. The body of First Amendment caselaw is vast and every law student knows you can say far far worse things which are protected speech.
This is nothing more than activist journalists hating successful people for leading a stand against a self-destructive ideology ruining lives.
These folks are the enemy of the people and I sincerely hope the worst for them.