Cut the BS. If you're going to turn morality on its head, at least speak with your own words. Don't preach with em-dash-riddled word soup. > This is how Facebo

Cut the BS. If you're going to turn morality on its head, at least speak with your own words. Don't preach with em-dash-riddled word soup. > This is how Facebook started. And along with it, commercial mass surveillance, monetized addiction, and destruction of free societies. Oh, and their decision enabled the Rohingya genocide too. > A society unable to tolerate deviance from the norm, is a society that will fail to adapt to inevitable changes to the norm Excusing a harassment platform or non-consensual female rating site for university students as social tolerance is gross. > And the norms are changing. Oh sure. The tech billionaires' wet dream are coming true at the expense of everyone subject to their whims. > The fact that this was the reaction to someone doing an experiment speaks poorly about the society it took place in Calling these acts as mere "experiments" tells us what you think about the suffering of others. > explains why there haven't been any major breakthroughs - in consumer tech, science or the arts – from within that country. What an arrogant and ridiculous take, but sadly, I recognize this line of reasoning. You think there are legionnaires of the Antichrist busy at HN trying to halt technological progress! > that hacker spirit So let's screw over a bunch of kids for "rebellion," that's the "hacker spirit" now? > I think there's a dark undercurrent in global culture, where people would rather live in a world where they're poor but able to control others as opposed to one where they're wealthy but unable to exert control over others. Most people are watching the ultra‑wealthy get richer while losing control over their own lives. This 1984-style rhetoric wrapped in emotional manipulation makes me sick.