Paul Graham on Twitter: "When an organization is maintaining a blacklist, it's not a sufficient defense for them to claim "It's safe for *us* to maintain a blacklist. No one innocent could end up on it, because we're always right." Every organization running a blacklist has claimed that."

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1. Matthias Galvin‏ @MatthiasGalvin Mar 25
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  Even James Spader?
  
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1. 𝐊𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧 𝕭áŕáǵőńá‏ @KevinBaragona Mar 25
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  This applies to individuals as well...
  
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1. Just some guy‏ @iamwhoisme Mar 25
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  You're never going to convince someone who already decided it's safe for them to have a blacklist that they can't trust themselves. What I think you can do is ask if they can they trust their successor to have the list after them?
  
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1. Vedran Grcic‏ @vedrangrcic Mar 25
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  Also, maintaining a perfect blacklist is, in essence, an 'i want to build a perfect discriminator' problem. If you can solve it perfectly, you can just as easily keep a whitelist (in fact you dont NEED a list as you have a (perfect) RULE) That they don't, shows they can't.
  
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1. Cameron Harris‏ @cameronxharris Mar 25
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  This is why Trump should not be banned from Twitter. Politics aside, its a very bad precedent.
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1. Salmaun‏ @Salmaun Mar 25
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  Doesn’t YC have a blacklist?
  
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1. Harshal Carpenter‏ @McQuinTrix Mar 25
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  Also, people change and a list essentially means that you have red line under your name. Doesn't matter you changed, old records show that you were a baddie so off with your head...
  
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1. SIMON BREAK‏ @simonbreak Mar 25
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  Are you against criminal records? Serious question, not a gotcha
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