eli990

You built an open tool free for everyone. But you also choose what petitions to promote. And then you accept money from organizations to promote their petitions, per each one signed, and basically guarantee them signatures.

How do you feel when you actively promote causes that you’re opposed to — not just allow for the creation using your tool, but actively promote — either by ads or by front-paging it, or on social media… and then they win, thanks in part to your work?

Not trolling. I’m honestly curious how what it’s like to promote causes you disagree with, either because they’re an advertiser, or because it got popular and you decided to front page it.

I can give an example, but for all I know you favored him on free speech (or other) grounds so that’s difficult, and I’m more interested in how you feel than a defense of a specific instance: but in case it’s helpful, an example could be front-paging the Duck Dynasty guy getting his show back even if "homosexuals do not agree."

Sorry, you didn't answer my question.

I asked how you feel when those causes you strongly disagree with WIN thanks to your promotion -- either because you accepted money from an org, or because you promoted it on your front page.

I'm not arguing about what your policy should be. It's your website, make your policy whatever you want. I'm really just interested in how you feel when that happens.

There's selection in ads (*promoted petitions). Also, people write algorithms.

But he followed-up. Seems he's not "exactly excited about it."