I don’t know where this idea that YC is supposed to be an ethical investor comes from. It’s certainly not in their principles:

https://www.ycombinator.com/principles/

> We should figure out a way to hold YC accountable for their helping these companies screw our rights and privacy.

Good thoughts like these are why I’m sort of surprised they still run HN on such an obviously, directly, unambiguously attributable domain name.

The watering hole effect, perhaps.