[jackstraw42]

> Flock (YC S17)

Ah, and there it is. Why shouldn't Y-Combinator be a force for evil like the rest of them? Paul Graham has been off his rocker for about as long as I can remember now, unfortunately my memories of people like this doing anything good for the world are so far in the past, they're fading. What a shame.

[lightedman]

"Why shouldn't Y-Combinator be a force for evil like the rest of them?"

We should figure out a way to hold YC accountable for their helping these companies screw our rights and privacy.

[badgersnake]

I don’t know where this idea that YC is supposed to be an ethical investor comes from. It’s certainly not in their principles:

https://www.ycombinator.com/principles/

[TheNewsIsHere]

> We should figure out a way to hold YC accountable for their helping these companies screw our rights and privacy.

Good thoughts like these are why I’m sort of surprised they still run HN on such an obviously, directly, unambiguously attributable domain name.

The watering hole effect, perhaps.