This makes it sound like the company was full of people that contributed nothing of value and simply made things take longer. I guess it’s exactly the environment that would breed the extreme censorship regime it had, given everyone was idle.

samdoesnothing · 1h ago

Reminds me of this a bit:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941

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