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Hmmmm... maybe I'm underestimating the number of non- and semi-technical people following HN. I do see the current debate in the general public as (at least pot
by black_puppydog 9y ago
Hmmmm... maybe I'm underestimating the number of non- and semi-technical people following HN.
I do see the current debate in the general public as (at least potentially) healthy and long overdue, I just felt that here on HN this wouldn't really pass as "news" in the literal sense, and that by now everyone here would have gotten the meta-story that "the normies" are waking up to the reality of surveillance capitalist business models...
- lambda_lover 9y agoEven as somebody who works in tech, this article revealed something shockingly scummy about Facebook. The general news of "Facebook harvests your data!" is definitely well-known in tech, but I'd say that this story qualifies as a genuine scoop.