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The tech industry largely thrives on basic freedoms, especially freedom of speech, and on university innovation, both of which are under direct attack. Those w
by k310 1y ago
The tech industry largely thrives on basic freedoms, especially freedom of speech, and on university innovation, both of which are under direct attack.
Those who cry that these are "no concern" of tech and Hacker News won't be happy when their projects and companies are shut down in order to do eugenics "research" or to turn their work into ways of sequestering and managing inmates of what are already concentration camps[0]
Hacker News and the industry are reduced to rubber stamps and prison administrators when basic freedoms are lost.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
- raxxorraxor 1y agoNobody believes Trumps opposition to be concerned about freedom of speech or that they value it.