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This should cause a significant degree of cognitive dissonance for quite a lot of Hacker News users. fascinating to see two members of the billionaire tech c

by zzzeek 4y ago

This should cause a significant degree of cognitive dissonance for quite a lot of Hacker News users. fascinating to see two members of the billionaire tech class disagree publicly like this.

brainphreeze 4y ago
This website is heavily left leaning, like most of the internet these days.
- 082349872349872 4y ago
  what do you consider a centrist website? (I am centre-right by my country's standards, yet my perception of HN is that it leans even more right)
- vdnkh 4y ago
  Do you live under a rock? This place has always been libertarian, and since Trump has turned into an echo chamber of alt-right grievances in tech. The initial burst of cheering from this forum over Elon initially buying twitter to "destroy wokeness" was deafening.
- tauntz 4y ago
  ..like most of the world, really. I'm not sure where some people got the impression that people are anywhere close to being 50/50 between left vs right.
  - elboru 4y ago
    Elections?
  - elforce002 4y ago
    Not the world, just the West.
weaksauce 4y ago
only if people haven't been paying attention to the absolute shitshow that musk was doing with twitter. elon is not a smart man even if he cosplays one.
coffeebeqn 4y ago
I mean my reaction is: ok I don’t care about this billionaire spat
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thepasswordis 4y ago
I have seen 0 people who support Elon in this.
photochemsyn 4y ago
As an HN user who is mostly interested in open source projects of various sorts, I don't really care that much about 'billionaire tech class' conflicts. I do appreciate Elon Musk's successful effort with electric vehicles and reusable rockets, though I expect others to eventually catch up, as is normal with tech innovation (VW electric vehicles are looking good). As far as social media, if it all goes away I wouldn't be that concerned. Net neutrality and access to basic Internet services for all is a much more important issue, IMO. Blocking servers from the Internet (unless they're actually hosting criminal content and taken down by legal prosecution) would be the more serious free speech violation.

by zzzeek 4y ago

This should cause a significant degree of cognitive dissonance for quite a lot of Hacker News users. fascinating to see two members of the billionaire tech class disagree publicly like this.

brainphreeze 4y ago

This website is heavily left leaning, like most of the internet these days.

082349872349872 4y ago
what do you consider a centrist website? (I am centre-right by my country's standards, yet my perception of HN is that it leans even more right)
vdnkh 4y ago
Do you live under a rock? This place has always been libertarian, and since Trump has turned into an echo chamber of alt-right grievances in tech. The initial burst of cheering from this forum over Elon initially buying twitter to "destroy wokeness" was deafening.
tauntz 4y ago
..like most of the world, really. I'm not sure where some people got the impression that people are anywhere close to being 50/50 between left vs right.
- elboru 4y ago
  Elections?
- elforce002 4y ago
  Not the world, just the West.

weaksauce 4y ago

only if people haven't been paying attention to the absolute shitshow that musk was doing with twitter. elon is not a smart man even if he cosplays one.

coffeebeqn 4y ago

I mean my reaction is: ok I don’t care about this billionaire spat

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thepasswordis 4y ago

I have seen 0 people who support Elon in this.

photochemsyn 4y ago

As an HN user who is mostly interested in open source projects of various sorts, I don't really care that much about 'billionaire tech class' conflicts. I do appreciate Elon Musk's successful effort with electric vehicles and reusable rockets, though I expect others to eventually catch up, as is normal with tech innovation (VW electric vehicles are looking good). As far as social media, if it all goes away I wouldn't be that concerned. Net neutrality and access to basic Internet services for all is a much more important issue, IMO. Blocking servers from the Internet (unless they're actually hosting criminal content and taken down by legal prosecution) would be the more serious free speech violation.