Definitely not going to spam, but thanks for the suggestion. Since you said you're getting them, I'll try recreating the reminder and see what happens.
Probably the same as any other online service; wait for DMCA takedown requests, prepare for lawsuits and be prepared to pay copyright holders or hand over gains to law enforcement.
Of course, that could be prevented if they manually check and verify ownership of every submission.
What about illegal content like CSAM? That would be far more serious than just a DMCA, personally content like that would be my first concern running this type of business.
All of the tweets linked seem pretty direct and transparent (i.e. the opposite of passive aggressive). Unless you're seeing some tweets that aren't in this thread?
That was my impression as well. The only real negativity was from the author of the thread (e.g. the "@jasonfried, I hope you enjoy your fucking sauna." comment), who AFAICT is not / was not affiliated with Basecamp.
That said, I think there are quite enough "openly woke" companies that it's not going to be hard for any of these people to find a welcoming home. Especially if they manage to successfully play the martyr on social media. This is where our society is at right now.
Overall this is probably a win/win -- the employees who left were surely the ones most dedicated to keeping the office political. Basecamp got rid of them and can rebuild with a team that's more aligned with the new policy, and those employees can find new jobs at companies that don't mind being political.
He is simply pointing out what others have as well - that using the crypto whose development was financed by the very people interested in breaking it, may not be that smart.
And is the story about from Jan about vulnerabilities in Signal that are absent in Telegram also planted by him? Want to see more incidents like that?