I'm well to the left of Hacker News, but on this point we disagree. If we get angry with people for not breaking the law, we create an environment where people

I'm well to the left of Hacker News, but on this point we disagree. If we get angry with people for not breaking the law, we create an environment where people pretend to be activists to avoid our wrath. That removes the biggest and most important component of activism: People's authentic willingness to sacrifice in exchange for the greatest good. People need to make a free and willing choice to engage in civil disobedience. --- Now that being said, there's another thing on which we might agree. Even if they don't break the law, I am prepared to disapprove of companies that are complicit in wrongdoing. Complicity is looking the other way or participating. For example, supplying goods and services to ICE is being be complicit in ICE's actions. I am not going to be angry with someone who complies with a court order to supply, say, employee information to ICE. But I will be angry with a company--cough, Microsoft, cough--who provides billions of dollars in services to ICE.