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> "I really do think people have trouble assuming the worst about the intentions of others and are inclined to be trusting." I think you hit the nail on the he
by darkpuma 8y ago
> "I really do think people have trouble assuming the worst about the intentions of others and are inclined to be trusting."
I think you hit the nail on the head. Even on HN, it's not uncommon to see a few comments on each negative story about facebook accusing the media of a conspiracy against Facebook; claiming that the media is wrongly maligning Facebook who is merely the unfortunate victim of a series of coincidental accidents.
They have trouble accepting that a tech corporation like facebook actually might be rotten.
- AnthonyMouse 8y agoI think you see that more with other tech companies. There is a certain amount of anti-silicon valley sentiment in the media and as a result there are a lot of stories maligning tech companies in ways that aren't always fair. Especially when the media companies are campaigning for some kind of problematic legislation that the tech companies are on the other side of and so will take any excuse to try to make them look bad. Then there's Facebook, about which nobody has time to write a story maligning them unfairly because there is never that long between any of the stories maligning them fairly.
- M2Ys4U 8y ago>They have trouble accepting that a tech corporation like facebook actually might be rotten. Probably because they work for an evil tech corporation as well (this is HN, where SV techbros hang out, so the probability of that it pretty high) and want to ease their cognitive dissonance.