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HN thread from 2016 on Torba getting booted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12934388

Includes comments from Sam Altman and Torba, posting as rvcamo

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That's an interesting thread as Fosco got involved too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12935057

Note that Fosco was not Gab’s CTO until recently, which makes his appearance in that thread a funny coincidence.

I found it quite fascinating how similar their ideas were in that thread but I'm interested in how people are converted into extremist movements.

This thread is really eye-opening about how stagnant the discourse around free speech/wokeness/political correctness has been. Four years later and the conversation would be exactly the same today.

It's cultural trench warfare. We're in a very profitable (for media companies that harvest clicks off of outrage) stalemate.

We need to develop new rhetorical and ideological tools too push the conversation in any meaningful direction. We also need to be able to disseminate them.

I really hate how Sam didn't respond on the first objection about double standards when other founders openly sexually harassed women on the streets and got nothing for that.

Like...what, commentator just made it all up and nobody noticed? Or it actually happened and Sam doesn't have even the minimal plausible excuse?

On a surface read, the author of the second objection may have not realized that prank videos are made with actors, not unsuspecting strangers.

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