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As a non-US HN'er, I totally agree with this. I come here for tech news, not US politics. Some HNer has set up a nice filter: http://diff.biz/?remove=%28nsa|p

lucb1e 13y ago
And even if I were from the US. When I started visiting hackernews, nearly all stories were about tech, startups, or research results (like whether there is a correlation between years of experience and code quality, such things). In the last few weeks it's all about privacy and, worse, politics. I'm a huge privacy fan, really. But after months of news about it, I'm quite through with it. We all know Gmail gets wiretapped, we all know how to encrypt data, and whether you do something about it is up to you. End of story if you ask me. Politics too to an extent. It's important to know what's going on in the world. But I don't find it important to know where Snowden is going by the minute.
cshenoy 13y ago
Honest question: how are privacy-related topics not tech news? If Google, Apple, FB, and other big techs are being required to give up data to the US government, isn't that something that should concern our community worldwide?
outworlder 13y ago
This is a very naive point of view. I too am not from the US, but this impacts me directly. Perhaps, even more so than US citizens, as they have rights (for the moment, at least). It wouldn't be much of an issue if I didn't use Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, heck, even Oracle products. Not to mention that traceroute shows that most internet routes pass through the US, even if the destination is not there. After all, the fattest pipes are to the US. I, and most posters here, have done nothing wrong. But the Stasi, if it still existed, might think otherwise. The US seems to be ok right now and focused on "terrorists" (real or imaginary), but we don't now who is going to eventually replace Obama. I have faith that the american people will eventually put an end to the madness, before it is too late. But, in the meantime, please keep the NSA and Snowden news coming.

lucb1e 13y ago

And even if I were from the US. When I started visiting hackernews, nearly all stories were about tech, startups, or research results (like whether there is a correlation between years of experience and code quality, such things). In the last few weeks it's all about privacy and, worse, politics. I'm a huge privacy fan, really. But after months of news about it, I'm quite through with it. We all know Gmail gets wiretapped, we all know how to encrypt data, and whether you do something about it is up to you. End of story if you ask me. Politics too to an extent. It's important to know what's going on in the world. But I don't find it important to know where Snowden is going by the minute.

cshenoy 13y ago

Honest question: how are privacy-related topics not tech news? If Google, Apple, FB, and other big techs are being required to give up data to the US government, isn't that something that should concern our community worldwide?

outworlder 13y ago

This is a very naive point of view. I too am not from the US, but this impacts me directly. Perhaps, even more so than US citizens, as they have rights (for the moment, at least). It wouldn't be much of an issue if I didn't use Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, heck, even Oracle products. Not to mention that traceroute shows that most internet routes pass through the US, even if the destination is not there. After all, the fattest pipes are to the US. I, and most posters here, have done nothing wrong. But the Stasi, if it still existed, might think otherwise. The US seems to be ok right now and focused on "terrorists" (real or imaginary), but we don't now who is going to eventually replace Obama. I have faith that the american people will eventually put an end to the madness, before it is too late. But, in the meantime, please keep the NSA and Snowden news coming.