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> Also true of non-tech-adjacent reporters! It's true for everyone. Over the years, I've been on the business end of several "tech outrage" stories that made t
by MountDoom 1y ago
> Also true of non-tech-adjacent reporters!
It's true for everyone. Over the years, I've been on the business end of several "tech outrage" stories that made the headlines on HN, and over time, became a sort of IT canon: "company X did something really bad".
And they all had the same origin: a party with an ax to grind latched onto a fairly boring story, distorted the facts to tell a narrative, and that narrative "clicked" with everyone else because it confirmed their preexisting biases.
It doesn't mean that there are no companies that are truly evil or incompetent, but I'd wager is <50% of the ones that get raked over the coals here and elsewhere.
- reissbaker 1y agoYep — sadly the most effective cure is being on the receiving end of one of the stories, and realizing how bad faith they are. I think the U.S. slander laws are probably too light. I'm generally supportive of the idea that "democracy dies in darkness," but I think we've gone further than that in allowing people to lie in public for money. I don't think that helps democracy, and in fact probably hurts it. I think anyone, anywhere on the political spectrum, can point to damning examples of the other side lying for their cause, and I think we'd all be better off if that stopped.