Seeing how many people here are defending the FBI really makes me question if HN is still the place it used to be and if it is a place that I want to continue i

Seeing how many people here are defending the FBI really makes me question if HN is still the place it used to be and if it is a place that I want to continue in. I have noticed a large increase here in apeasers of totalitarian approaches to software and hardware over the last few years. What ever happend to the hacker spirit of freedom of knowledge, information, data, and the ability to write and read code as you see fit? I still see an agreement on GPLv3 now and then, but HN is increasingly seeming more infected by silicon valley business types who want to pretend to be hackers and don't understand or subscribe to the core concepts that enabled the computing revolution in the first place.