Jimmy Wales
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Yeah.
Cool.
Cool, dude.
Like, whatever.
That's fine.
Like it's free country.
I think the data may not be relatively well known.
And I just think there's often the case, you know, there's a lot of different reasons.
There can be like internal pressure and so on.
Like, why aren't we making a statement about X?
And then I think you need to have, as a leader, you need to have a good answer to that, which is to say, well, like, you know, we're not the right people.
Obviously, you know, if it's something about discrimination or something like that, then it's like, yeah, but I mean, our statement is our company policy.
And like we're going to do the right thing.
We're not going to campaign about it because, frankly, we sell coffee cups like nobody cares.
Like that's not something we should be weighing in on.
Transparency.
Oh, yeah.
So Airbnb, like early on in the history of Airbnb, they had this huge trust crisis.
So what happened was this woman put her, I think she was here in San Francisco, she put her apartment on Airbnb and then somebody rented it and absolutely trashed the place.
And they got bad advice, PR legal advice to basically Stonewall, don't admit responsibility, you'll make it worse, da, da, da.