TED

“I stopped going to TED, because I thought the content went to shit, and it basically got overtaken with, like, social justice talks”

“I went to Ted for 12 years. I started going to Ted, I think, 2007, and I felt pretty disappointed over the last couple of years. And I actually spoke to the CEO of Ted and said, I'm not going to go anymore because so much of this, the talks became kind of soci…”

“All of the five talks surrounding mine, they all had between, you know, 450,000 views and 800,000 views. That was the full range. Mine had 73,000.”

“And my perception is that TED has been captured kind of from the bottom up, like many institutions, just from the seeping in of staff that don't share those values and the in inability of the leadership to actually hold the line for those values.”

“They tried to get me to pay 50,000 dollars a year, 25,000 dollars a year for like a five-year package to go to the event, and I was like, yeah.”

“Ted's original mission represented in their tagline was ideas worth spreading. So there's supposed to be a forum for interesting, worthy ideas that they're going to spread. And here they're doing the opposite. They're basically sandbagging the views and they d…”

“That Chris could have stopped this very easily. I mean, this is a failure of leadership. What he needed to tell these employees is, look, our mission is to be a platform for spreading interesting ideas. And we can't treat this speech differently than any other…”

“And what disturbed me the most was that in the three years after he was elected, every TED conference had plenty of subjects, plenty of talks, and plenty of conversations about why society is falling apart, why Donald Trump is a key root cause of that, why so …”