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Making this another polar political discussion would be shameful and unproductive for hacker news.
by throwaway13337 7y ago
Making this another polar political discussion would be shameful and unproductive for hacker news.
- rahuldottech 7y agoTech and politics cannot always be separated. This appears to be one of those cases.
- dang 7y agoFor sure they can't—but discussions don't need to degenerate into predictable partisan sniping. That stuff is always the same, so though it may be intense and exciting (to some), it's not intellectually interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- creddit 7y agoThis is an inherently political topic.
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoIt is. The interesting part of the politics, though, is not how it intersects with the current president. There are much more interesting topics: Should Google be under investigation? For antitrust, I presume (and the article mentions), but anything else? What's the relation between the state AGs and the US DOJ in this?