Crypto Influencer Cooper Turley Removed From FWB Over 2013 Bigoted Tweets

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Crypto Influencer Cooper Turley Removed From FWB Over 2013 Bigoted Tweets
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.FWBtweets has decided to remove Cooopahtroopa from the DAO's leadership after tweets with racial and homophobic slurs were unearthed earlier this week. lil_smush reports

Cooper Turley, an investor and influencer at the heart of crypto’s burgeoningscene, has been kicked out of Friends With Benefits , the exclusive online social club he helped build over the past year.

“The Code of Conduct committee has made the formal recommendation of removal from the FWB DAO leadership, to which the member has accepted,” reads a: “Regarding the member’s status as a community member, they will be temporarily suspended from the community for a minimum of 2 Seasons, after which, following our restorative approach, they will be granted the opportunity to reapply for DAO membership.

The post doesn’t refer to Turley by name, but an FWB staffer confirmed that it was indeed about him. The ban is a rare example of real-world consequences in a space that puts a high premium on “censorship-resistance” and “immutability.” Turley, now 25 years old, has worked with some of the biggest projects in the Web 3 ecosystem. He’s currently

as a “venture partner” at the venture capital firm Variant Fund, helmed by Jesse Walden and Li Jin, and has worked as an advisor for the blockchain streaming service Audius and the DAO incubator Seed Club.

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