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Nah, I think the good and bad aspects should be judged separately, we shouldn't be giving these companies a free pass for the infrastructure contributions they

Nah, I think the good and bad aspects should be judged separately, we shouldn't be giving these companies a free pass for the infrastructure contributions they made -- you know which bad regime was also good at building motorways -- I'm grateful for google search and for maps, Facebook and some of the other stuff not so much.

FormerBandmate 4y ago
The Holocaust absurdly outweighs the Autobahn, the Nazis were the worst people in history. The net result of big tech has been relatively good (for the average person’s material conditions, the jury’s still out on psychological effects but regardless of anything, it’s not even comparable to the Nazis).
- skeeter2020 4y ago
  now equate tech executives to specific Nazis - circle complete!
  - twblalock 4y ago
    No, just stop responding to or encouraging this kind of behavior. It probably seems funny to you in the context of a thread but it pollutes the discourse and gradually wears down the standards on this site. The signal to noise ratio needs to be good, or there will be no point to reading the comments.
    - lumb63 4y ago
      Wow, you just made me realize why HN is so much better than Reddit. There’s no useless comments full of in-jokes and sarcastic one liners; comments are actually thoughtful and generate discourse rather than being one-line low-wit witticisms.
- throwaway71271 4y ago
  the net result of big tech is literally depression, anxiety and the fall of democracy.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 4y ago
  Interesting. Romans built roads, killed a whole bunch of people in the name of the empire and had no problem with slavery. And yet, sufficient amount of time have passed to allow for a detached look to what they did and how it was accomplished. Were Romans so much better than Nazis or just so far back in the past that their relative badness does not register?
loandbehold 4y ago
Godwin's law in action.
- throw_pm23 4y ago
  Fallacy fallacy :)

FormerBandmate 4y ago

The Holocaust absurdly outweighs the Autobahn, the Nazis were the worst people in history. The net result of big tech has been relatively good (for the average person’s material conditions, the jury’s still out on psychological effects but regardless of anything, it’s not even comparable to the Nazis).

skeeter2020 4y ago
now equate tech executives to specific Nazis - circle complete!
- twblalock 4y ago
  No, just stop responding to or encouraging this kind of behavior. It probably seems funny to you in the context of a thread but it pollutes the discourse and gradually wears down the standards on this site. The signal to noise ratio needs to be good, or there will be no point to reading the comments.
  - lumb63 4y ago
    Wow, you just made me realize why HN is so much better than Reddit. There’s no useless comments full of in-jokes and sarcastic one liners; comments are actually thoughtful and generate discourse rather than being one-line low-wit witticisms.
throwaway71271 4y ago
the net result of big tech is literally depression, anxiety and the fall of democracy.
A4ET8a8uTh0 4y ago
Interesting. Romans built roads, killed a whole bunch of people in the name of the empire and had no problem with slavery. And yet, sufficient amount of time have passed to allow for a detached look to what they did and how it was accomplished. Were Romans so much better than Nazis or just so far back in the past that their relative badness does not register?

loandbehold 4y ago

Godwin's law in action.

throw_pm23 4y ago
Fallacy fallacy :)