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It touches on multiple axes of discussion that can often be found here: - The rights of the individual/company compared to the good of the public. - The right
by kbenson 6y ago
It touches on multiple axes of discussion that can often be found here:
- The rights of the individual/company compared to the good of the public.
- The right of an individual to control that which they bought. Also, whether and what you buy compared to license the use of.
- Anti-competitive behavior and monopolies (as distinct concepts, whether one applies doesn't preclude a different answer for the other).
- Very large companies and the amount of control they have over individuals and their rights.
These are all vibrant topics of discussion on HN, and this includes, and in some cases epitomizes, aspects of all of those and more.
- cgriswald 6y agoI think these all also touch on deeper aspects of our personal stories and the emotions we feel about them. See the post about a non-white person viewing it as a battle between an oppressed party and a party upset at being viewed as an oppressed party. Although people like to believe they think rationally, especially here; the truth is, none of us is capable of doing so all the time. We all bring things to the table. And I think each of the things you mention touches all of us pretty deeply, as it has to do with all of our individual standings in society and our freedom to live our lives.
- WWLink 6y agoPlus as it's HN, there's a lot of people who want to have control over what their customers do with their products. lol. It's like those threads where some company is exposed for spying on their users, where a bunch of people argue that it's just telemetry and they wouldn't know what their customers wanted if they didn't spy on them and stuff.