In the world of the mainstream media - the default media diet of most americans excludes Hacker News, funnily enough. All sorts of more taboo stuff gets said o

In the world of the mainstream media - the default media diet of most americans excludes Hacker News, funnily enough. All sorts of more taboo stuff gets said on hacker news. It's not exactly a cultural bellwether that ideas outside of the overton window are entertained here. Wearing a che guevara t shirt is similarly "allowed" in public, but the last article about him in the new york times is fawning admiration for his assassin. Criticism of capitalism is still taboo.