I think part of the challenge is that the "hacker" ethic has always been very libertarian. Open dialog about issues within corporations and industry has always

I think part of the challenge is that the "hacker" ethic has always been very libertarian. Open dialog about issues within corporations and industry has always been a thing here, until relatively recently. I actually don't think it is that out of place on HN, many the top posts on Hacker News are related to politics (Joe Biden vowing different direction, Brexit, even youtube-dl facing a DMCA are all politics) https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... I personally think it's rather one sided, but it's clearly important to many here.