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by 0x8BADF00D 2713 days ago
> My advice : be open, respond to criticism, don't stay silent on touchy topics, encourage YC staff to share their opinions on controversial topics.

We already tried this in the larger tech community. At best the controversial or contrarian views were silenced, at worst, people’s lives were ruined.

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Can you give me a tl;dr of what you are referring to. Links to articles would be great too!
James Damore's Google memo probably qualifies -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_Ideological_Echo_Ch...