> If this was Sean Parker with Napster or Zuck with early Facebook, we’d be celebrating their initiative. I'd say those are both very controversial examples, c

> If this was Sean Parker with Napster or Zuck with early Facebook, we’d be celebrating their initiative. I'd say those are both very controversial examples, certainly not heroes. As for "growth hacking" and generally the ethics of programmers that appeared after the internet bubble, I wonder if one can even describe this as a purely American cultural thing. This is a field which is practically synonymous with internationality.