Ostracism is how we (humans) enforce social norms.

In this case the community is ostracizing a company known for grifting under a facade of technological advancement. Seems like the system is working.

In this case there is no grift (he is likely investing in AI like literally everybody else) and these comments are nothing but noise.

"Social norms" are a poor excuse for "ostracizing" someone who isn't even here to be impacted by it, let alone the knock-on affect of getting in the way of effective communication and discussion.

I wouldn't say that anyone's ostracizing him at all (It is on the front page...), and even if they are, putting it down to "social norms" is a bit disingenuous, don't you think?

We're not talking about Socrates speaking rudely about the people in power, we're talking about a billionaire accused (seemingly [rightfully](https://www.blockdata.tech/blog/general/where-andreessen-hor...)?) investing in bad-faith to scam people out of their money. I think that's a form of a theft, and calling an aversion to theft a "social norm" is technically correct but practically a massive misapplication of the term.