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HN may be larger than 4000 people, but it feels like a disturbingly large portion of the HN community seems to be in favor of anti-owner and anti-privacy polici
by EvanAnderson 6y ago
HN may be larger than 4000 people, but it feels like a disturbingly large portion of the HN community seems to be in favor of anti-owner and anti-privacy policies. Forced obsolescence, razor/blades business models, selling user "behavior" data, and out-right spying on individual communications all seem to be big moneymakers, and some significant portion of HN's audience is more about "IPO and get rich" than "hacking".
- jacquesm 6y agoHN is large enough that it has many factions, the one you describe definitely exists, as does the 'bro' faction, the 'get rich quick' faction, the racists and the idiots. That doesn't mean that any of these factions are dominant, and besides that HN has many more lurkers than posters and I suspect that the division is not identical between those groups on either side of the lurker/contributor divide.