> Sometimes I feel like posts that are even remotely critical about Apple or Macs Apple on HN, get flagged and generally attacked in replies with hateful commen

> Sometimes I feel like posts that are even remotely critical about Apple or Macs Apple on HN, get flagged and generally attacked in replies with hateful comments. I keep hoping people would be more objective and moderate here and less defensive about a favorite brand. That is true of most of the organizations that have a large representation here on HN. A ton of people here work for those companies, the federal government or companies that directly contract (and depend) on those companies. While I don't mind much if someone disagrees with me on HN I do notice that conversations surrounding certain topics, groups or companies get essentially brigaded and as a byproduct of that I typically avoid those discussions here. I figure if the echo chamber wants/needs to talk to each other about how great Apple or Google is I just ignore it and it happen. Sure, there will be a post in a few weeks about how the same company stole their data or made them into a product, but they'll forget that and go back to singing corporate praise soon enough. When real products or innovations come around you can see the way people react on the site as genuine. I look for those kinds of conversations and topics. If you ever get bored and want to be entertained go check out some of the hilariously bad product launches either Apple or Google have done and then go back and look at some of the conversations on HN about it.