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www-theverge-com-7230		Behind the controversy at Basecamp - The Verge			.html	text/html	2334	139	67	Discussion about the list and how the company ought to hold itself accountable for creating it led directly to CEO Jason Fried announcing Tuesday that Basecamp would ban employees from holding "societal and political discussions" on the company's internal chat forums. Employees say the founders' memos unfairly depicted their workplace as being riven by partisan politics, when in fact the main source of the discussion had always been Basecamp itself. "At least in my experience, it has always been centered on what is happening at Basecamp," said one employee — who, like most of those I spoke with today, requested anonymity so as to freely discuss internal deliberations. While Basecamp does not publish diversity statistics, it is still, like most tech companies, majority white and male, employees said. Basecamp employees are encouraged to discuss the company's own political positions — or, perhaps more accurately, the founders' political positions — as much as they like.	./cache/www-theverge-com-7230.html	./txt/www-theverge-com-7230.txt