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Feel free to let my five downvoters know; I'm sure that that "not hostile" will change their minds. HN is hostile to people like Swartz who actively work to te
by Kednicma 6y ago
Feel free to let my five downvoters know; I'm sure that that "not hostile" will change their minds.
HN is hostile to people like Swartz who actively work to tear down information silos, shine light on government and corporate secrets, and advocate for intellectual property reform.
It's not an accident that shit_hn_says, n-gate, /r/SneerClub, and other critics of HN, can make most of their commentary simply by quoting HN discussion and juxtaposing it next to basic paraphrases of what was said; so much of what's said here is rude towards the rest of the world that merely quoting the discussion is sufficient to highlight its farcical and close-minded nature.
- solarengineer 6y agoSorry, you are making things up. At the time of Aaron's demise, the entire first page at HN was full of articles about him. We'd all discussed quite a bit here as well as elsewhere. As for "shit hn says", we are all not even from the same part of the world and have very diverse cultures and divergent viewpoints as well. There's no single "hn" that you allude to.
- Kednicma 6y agoOh, shit_hn_says [0] is a Twitter account which mocks the serious-yet-rude attitude of folks on this site. Their posts are curated selections from normal HN discourse; the entirety of the criticism is that some person genuinely believed what they wrote. I'm not trying to paint some picture of folks unsympathetic or uncaring. I'm saying that no amount of thoughts nor prayers are going to be equivalent to doing the hard work of changing the world to be less horrible. If we are going to spend a thread remembering the sacrifice of such a person, martyred for not just their beliefs but their works, then we ought to at least acknowledge the mismatch between what Swartz did with his life, and what commenters here are doing with their life while they're sending in thoughts and prayers. [0] https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says
- solarengineer 6y agoI have become one of the idiots who attacks strangers on the internet. My apologies.
- Thorrez 6y agoYou're being downvoted not because people dislike Swartz, but because people like Swartz and resent being told that they dislike Swartz.