Another example: there was a relatively civil debate about a new hackathon yall are putting out, funded by.... AMD, and the US government's fund to "teach AI literacy" or whatever the fuck that means. Due to this, _you region locked an entire Hack Club event_. This is the kind of stunt Nintendo would pull, but an organization that thrives itself in "everyone is welcome".
When confronted, yall decided to..... shut down any internal discussion, and avoid the thread at all costs, directly going against you other claims of "radical transparency" and "openness to feedback"/
What long game are you playing here? The game of "make Hack Club suck for 5 years, and lose our motives, morals, and the trust of our community, for an extra few bucks on the 6th?
It's complicated to handle the law. It's why lawyers cost, per your quote, $500 an hour. But it's not complicated to listen to people and genuinely try to turn back from the wrong turn you took somewhere during Juice.
The only reason we got an update from you in the first place is the opposite of what it should have been. Send this to Christina as well: https://mondaynote.com/united-broken-culture-6b35267c8a10
About the vuln, Ella is exaggerating and has very minimal basis if at all. She did some pentesting, vuln got patched, problem solved. Does HQ need to be more responsible here? Yes. Should critical infrastructure be written by AI? Absolutely not! But does Ella have the basis to start claiming legal superiority over here? Also no.
But, now that you absolutely insist you need to keep my passport indefinitely in order to ship me a sticker that says "summer of making" on it, I expect you to be a little more responsible in: - Who you give access to - How you give said access - How long you give it for - How strict you are about conduct when person is in possession of said access.
TL;DR: Ella's point sucks. Hack Club data handling, also socks. Hack Club PR? Might be worse.