While the founders of basecamp may choose to ban politics out of their work chats we can only see this as trying to shut down the conversation for comfort.
https://world.hey.com/jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-26/basecamp-follows-coinbase-in-banning-politics-talk-at-work
Or why this will be the introduction to vlogs that aren't stories.
Some days I will rant about tech and people.
Update 28042021 : Open letter from a member of staff that gives more insight. https://janeyang.org/2021/04/27/an-open-letter-to-jason-and-david/