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We don’t come to HN for politics or religion. It just causes polarization. It’s part of what makes HN great.

• windex 10mo ago
  That's fine IF tech stays out of politics, but that's not the case anymore. US tech bros are buying themselves policy with this administration. If tech is influencing politics and consequently, all of us, why should there be an asymmetry when the tech plebs want to talk politics?
  • nh23423fefe 10mo ago
    No its just unqualified fine. Asserting everything is political "because tech bros" is word salad. I downvote politics because its repetitive, uninteresting in itself, and uninteresting in the comments. Go somewhere else to obsess about whatever stupid thing Trump did today.
• jonway 10mo ago
  well, I think its relevant to tech, vc, and startups. An event like this exposes a chink in legacy media practices that could be distrupted by a new media player like youtube, or whatever. If 60minutes had used a more modern distribution platform such as Apple TV or YouTube they could have programmatically squashed the distribution of the episode without the need to police their various global distribution partners. I mean frankly, global bespoke distribution deals are a terrible UX anyhow. They failed to do that in this case and here is the fallout.