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> It's great, because we should be more aware of the political and societal implications of technology. As one can see in the guidelines, awareness-raising is
by jessriedel 10y ago
> It's great, because we should be more aware of the political and societal implications of technology.
As one can see in the guidelines, awareness-raising is not the purpose of HN.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- new299 10y agoAll stories are about raising awareness... even if it's about awareness of a particular algorithm. As for if politics is on-topic or not? The mods didn't delete the threads, so I assume they were considered important enough, and on-topic enough not to be deleted. Personally I couldn't care less, creating and disseminating technology is already a political act.