There’s a difference between arguing to stop using stolen funds “GOING FORWARD”, and shutting down an NGO just because it was funded by FTX in the past. The more obvious alternative is merely changing funding sources, which is what most NGOs affected by the FTX situation are already trying to do.
As for the last part, I think you’re really exaggerating the risk associated to having received FTX funds. It seems extremely unlikely regulatory agencies will start investigating NGOs just for having received funds from the FTX Future Fund. Even if such risk comes from an employee being SBF’s brother (which it shouldn’t because most regulatory agencies aren’t in the habit of persecuting kins without good suspicion), there’s no point in pre-emptively shutting down an NGO.
This whole line of reasoning feels very strongly like motivated reasoning, and I don’t think we should be taking decisions like shutting down NGOs lightly.
There’s a difference between arguing to stop using stolen funds “GOING FORWARD”, and shutting down an NGO just because it was funded by FTX in the past. The more obvious alternative is merely changing funding sources, which is what most NGOs affected by the FTX situation are already trying to do.
As for the last part, I think you’re really exaggerating the risk associated to having received FTX funds. It seems extremely unlikely regulatory agencies will start investigating NGOs just for having received funds from the FTX Future Fund. Even if such risk comes from an employee being SBF’s brother (which it shouldn’t because most regulatory agencies aren’t in the habit of persecuting kins without good suspicion), there’s no point in pre-emptively shutting down an NGO.
This whole line of reasoning feels very strongly like motivated reasoning, and I don’t think we should be taking decisions like shutting down NGOs lightly.