What would it take for EA to become the kind of movement where SBF would’ve lost?
I sorta feel like this is barking up the wrong tree, because: (a) the information that SBF was committing fraud was private and I cannot think of a realistic scenario where it would have become public, and (b) even if widely spread, the public information wouldn’t have been sufficient.
Before FTX’s fall, I’d remarked to several people that EA’s association with crypto (compare e.g. Ben Delo) was almost certainly bad for us, as it’s overrun with scams and fraud. At the time, I’d been thinking non-FTX scams affecting FTX or its customers, not FTX itself being fraudulent; but I do feel like the right way to prevent all this would have been to refuse any association between EA and crypto.
However, this is also starting to sound like a proof that there’s no such thing as a clean judicial system, quality investigative journalism, honest scientific research into commercial products like drugs, etc.
Good point! I’m probably being overly skeptical here, on reflection.
I think @chinscratch may have meant: What would it take for EA to become the kind of movement where SBF would’ve lost in his hypothetical efforts to squelch discussion of his general shadiness, and run those folks out of EA?
EA couldn’t have detected or stopped the fraud in my opinion, but more awareness of shady behavior could have caused people to distance themselves from SBF, not make major decisions in reliance on FTX cash, etc.
I sorta feel like this is barking up the wrong tree, because: (a) the information that SBF was committing fraud was private and I cannot think of a realistic scenario where it would have become public, and (b) even if widely spread, the public information wouldn’t have been sufficient.
Before FTX’s fall, I’d remarked to several people that EA’s association with crypto (compare e.g. Ben Delo) was almost certainly bad for us, as it’s overrun with scams and fraud. At the time, I’d been thinking non-FTX scams affecting FTX or its customers, not FTX itself being fraudulent; but I do feel like the right way to prevent all this would have been to refuse any association between EA and crypto.
Good point! I’m probably being overly skeptical here, on reflection.
I think @chinscratch may have meant: What would it take for EA to become the kind of movement where SBF would’ve lost in his hypothetical efforts to squelch discussion of his general shadiness, and run those folks out of EA?
EA couldn’t have detected or stopped the fraud in my opinion, but more awareness of shady behavior could have caused people to distance themselves from SBF, not make major decisions in reliance on FTX cash, etc.