@sama Sam Altman, can you explain your reasoning for banning a company that merely wrote something on Twitter, but you allowed Jumpcut from S16 who actually went into the streets and filmed street harassment (forcefully kissing women without permission, massaging them without permission, and "motor-boating" them as an incentive for charity) with their brand Simple Pickup?
Here's the petition to remove their YouTube channel -> www.change.org/p/youtube-com-end-street-harassment-remove-simple-pickup-s-youtube-channel-13bef5b3-1dcc-4f8a-be88-ef3f69cc7e1c
They are still making money with their Project Go program which shows their instructor Willy molesting a woman without her knowing she was being filmed.
Seems like this type of harassment is an embodiment of what you would disagree with.
I don't want to read too far into the comments already made, but: a YC company sexually harassing strangers on the street doesn't seem to impact people's desire to do business with YC.
But if you do much less, but to people YC has to do business with, that has real consequences.
If they were motorboating Marc Andreessen without consent, for instance, they wouldn't need news coverage and video to drop them.
EDIT: I don't mean this to be cynical so much as derived from fiduciary duty.
And here we go. That is exactly what happens once censorship is not any longer based on legal evidence but personal judgement. The 'my feelings are hurt more than yours competition' starts.
Edit: Actually watched some of the videos mentioned. Totally amazed how anyone can get offended by prank videos and doesn't know about actors involved.
We're talking about how an organization chooses who to boycott. Legal evidence typically isn't the standard here, but I think it's reasonable to ask what that standard might be.
Here are links proving my point: http://www.dailydot.com/irl/simple-pickup-youtube-sexual-ass...
http://www.dailycal.org/2012/02/29/youtube-pickup-artists-co...
Here's the petition to remove their YouTube channel -> www.change.org/p/youtube-com-end-street-harassment-remove-simple-pickup-s-youtube-channel-13bef5b3-1dcc-4f8a-be88-ef3f69cc7e1c
They are still making money with their Project Go program which shows their instructor Willy molesting a woman without her knowing she was being filmed.
Seems like this type of harassment is an embodiment of what you would disagree with.
Or were you just not aware of this?