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One can say that the exclusion of politics from HN is itself politics. Likewise the debate in the comments herein is a manifestation of politics. Is technology
by eevilspock 4y ago
One can say that the exclusion of politics from HN is itself politics.
Likewise the debate in the comments herein is a manifestation of politics. Is technology entrepreneurship and science better served by having a politics-free zone, like the Olympics? Or is society worse served by having a class of people and an industry operate as if politics is orthogonal to it, as if the whole nature of the enterprise isn't built upon a particular political ethos and system that sustains its current incarnation, possibly at the expense of other classes of people or society as a whole?
Is HN the Galt's Gulch of the social media world, where techies can withdraw from the rest of society because they can?
- dang 4y agoThere's no exclusion of politics from HN, and never haws been (since it was renamed from Startup News in 2007) other than a few days in 2016 when we tried a brief experiment with it and got quite decisive results. At the same time, not all political stories are on topic. If anyone wants to read about how we draw that line, there are past explanations at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=political%20overlap%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....
- tomrod 4y ago> Is technology entrepreneurship and science better served by having a politics-free zone, like the Olympics? Or is society worse served by having a class of people and an industry operate as if politics is orthogonal to it, as if the whole nature of the enterprise isn't built upon a particular political ethos and system that sustains its current incarnation, possibly at the expense of other classes of people or society as a whole? While politics often appeals to morality, I'd argue these are moral and social discussions.