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This is crazy to me. Why are people so obsessed with fighting a company that has made all of our lives better with amazing free email, search, maps and other se
by joelx 7y ago
This is crazy to me. Why are people so obsessed with fighting a company that has made all of our lives better with amazing free email, search, maps and other services in only twenty years?
Why doesn't HN have the courage to go after MBS who murders journalists, or Putin who invaded the Crimea and attacked free elections everywhere? Come on people get your priorities straightened out.
- abacadaba 7y ago> Why doesn't HN have the courage to go after MBS who murders journalists, or Putin who invaded the Crimea and attacked free elections everywhere? Come on people get your priorities straightened out. well some did, they're gone now Edit: but on a more on-topic note, because I like using Firefox and don't want to be forced to use Chrome. There's a fine line between 'muh muh big corporation bad derp' and not wanting to become a helpless subject to our corporate overlords.
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- CryoLogic 7y agoFor one, HackerNews is a tech discussion board - so many of the contributors are probably more intimately familiar with issues in the technology world than in the civil rights world especially in countries outside of 1st world software/tech producing countries. I don't see anything wrong with going after Google, as they have time and time again lied to customers and taken advantage of customers with help from our legal system. Both are bad, but one is easier for technophiles to discuss and brainstorm than the other I would guess.
- andrei_says_ 7y agoThe discussion is not going after the positive contributions of the company but after its insidious shadowy practices of collecting personal data forever. Asking what about unrelated x, y or z is a frequent pattern of “whataboutism” used to derail conversations.