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This is political content. Every other news aggregation site on the planet covers this stuff. It detracts from hacker news.

• Afforess 6y ago
  What part of "Hacker" in "Hacker News" did you not notice? Hackers have always been involved in politics. This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. (From the Hacker's Manifesto, 1986)
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• perfmode 6y ago
  hacking is a political act.
• johnyzee 6y ago
  Surveillance, information security, close enough, I'll allow it.
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