“I thought once everybody could speak freely and exchange information and ideas, the world is automatically going to be a better place” - Ev Williams "Really

“I thought once everybody could speak freely and exchange information and ideas, the world is automatically going to be a better place” - Ev Williams "Really don't want to get in politics. I just want to help invent and develop technologies that improve lives. Feels so bizarre." - Elon Musk "For one week, political stories are off-topic. Please flag them. Please also flag political threads on non-political stories. For our part, we'll kill such stories and threads when we see them. Then we'll watch together to see what happens." - HN Moderation team It's okay, maybe some day Silicon Valley will realize that technology and politics aren't two concepts that you can neatly disentangle from one another, and that building tech never "automatically" makes the world a better place on its own. If you are touching human lives, you are "in politics".