Thank you, updated.
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Thank you, point taken, corrected it. I made a mental map that this is an ongoing process reaching from as far back as couple of weeks ago until now. But it can be seen other way.
However, there is a question on why this wasn’t discussed in the forums earlier, as the first reporting came in. Not a good sign if such stories on Will are in the media and nobody in EA noticed (myself included).
Hi, thank you for bringing this up, I didn’t want to generalise that everything with FTX is shady, however, It appears that media and people outside of EA might get that impression anyway based on media featuring Will’s name rather prominently next to SBF’s etc. General public will not know the minute details and there’s a risk of association rising, that EA’s are a part of (crypto) billionaires club, which has a lot of bad publicity already. Leaving this uncommented exposes EA to further allegiations of being a Silicon Valley cult etc. etc.
Also, I agree with the questions raised in the comments I bring up and link in my post: perhaps dealing with Elon Musk and SBF should have been handled other way, scrutinized more, maybe the rationale behind it should have been made public etc.
Moreover, Musk’s Twitter buyout and his actions at Twitter also received a lot of criticism—so there’s this side of the story as well. Perhaps this is even more damning: it is reasonable to assume that Will didn’t know about inner workings of FTX, however there were publicly known red flags about Musk’s intentions with Twitter (loosening moderation etc.) and trying to help him with that is a bad look.
One data point on SBF being pretty honest on how crypto is too close for comfort to Ponzi scheme.