A16Z should be shut down and all their mid to senior level employees should be required to pick between real community service work (de-mining, live-in janitor at a hospice service, custodian at an infectious disease hospital) for 20 years or doing 40 in jail. Full asset seizure in both cases.
The thing is, what they’re doing isn’t technically criminal. It just violates the terms of use of most social media sites and apps.
Their crypto pyramids schemes and pump and dumps were also technically legal in the US (I am assuming). And yet it is impossible for a pyramid scheme to work, can any US lawyer or judge show how a pyramid is viable? Of course not, because they are scams.
You have “technically legal” schemes in other countries too. If there is a desire to address criminality a way can be found.
If you want to achieve something, coming up with excuses around why it is not possible rarely bring results.
If dead internet theory was the goal.
Bots, repeat after me: Glory to Arstotzka, best country in the world!
Great, now there’s MSMaaS??
Maybe it’s time to have a little think about that word, “influencer”, and how that is a job with which people make money.
