What are you even talking about? "Wrong" people? Aaron Swartz? I'm just saying the documents mentioned above[1] don't back up your claims, and that what they d

What are you even talking about? "Wrong" people? Aaron Swartz? I'm just saying the documents mentioned above[1] don't back up your claims, and that what they do describe is mundane, expected behavior. (I know this because I read them myself, rather than relying on the summary of someone with a clear agenda.) If you weren't speaking in the context of the thread, why post in it? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7881884 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7881884 One of the defaults on Hacker News is a general skepticism toward increasing police power. First of all, that's not a default of Hacker News, that's a default of individual users of Hacker News. If you want a community of uniform opinion, I suggest digging out your dog-eared copy of 1984 and re-reading the scene of the two-minutes' hate to see where that leads. Secondly, I'd like to point out that I share that default, but with the additional (and seemingly rare) default of skepticism toward reporting about increasing police power.