<story><title>Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/22/paul-graham-sopa-supporting-companies-no-longer-allowed-at-yc-demo-day/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>burgerbrain</author><text>&quot;&lt;i&gt;&quot;If these companies are so clueless about technology that they think SOPA is a good idea, how could they be good investors?&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&quot;&lt;p&gt;That is a brilliant point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philh</author><text>I&apos;ve seen the argument: if someone is so clueless about rationality as to be religious, how could they make a good scientist? And the &quot;answer&quot; is: nevertheless, there exist religious people who do good science.&lt;p&gt;So I&apos;m not convinced by the argument here. It makes too many unstated assumptions.&lt;p&gt;I support this boycott, and this argument might make good rhetoric, but I wouldn&apos;t use it directly to evaluate investors.</text></comment>
<story><title>Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/22/paul-graham-sopa-supporting-companies-no-longer-allowed-at-yc-demo-day/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>burgerbrain</author><text>&quot;&lt;i&gt;&quot;If these companies are so clueless about technology that they think SOPA is a good idea, how could they be good investors?&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&quot;&lt;p&gt;That is a brilliant point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>staunch</author><text>Unless they&apos;re different people in the organization, which is likely the usual case. Not that I disagree with the sentiment.</text></comment>