I'm so tired of hearing this. Just because you agree with him doesn't make him the damn fuhrer. We are supposed to live in a country of laws and checks and balances. Even if he got 80% of the vote, he still needs to respect the Constitution and take basic care to protect us from bad actors (giving a 19 year old a backdoor to our most sensitive systems is not).
I'm completely APPALLED at how many outright fascists have crawled out of the HN woodwork this year.
I vouched for this post because, even if you think it's more focused on politics than tech, it is covering a political project (and the execution thereof) by a technologist (and several tech-adjacent folk) who has had work frequently featured in this venue.
Moreover, given that this political project places Tech itself front-and-center (both in the use for furtherance of the project as well as serving as the model being emulated/extrapolated), I think it is wholly on-topic for HN.
None of this analysis strikes me as particularly unkind or unfair. I hope the conversation can at least tackle the thorny issues of how tech has been implicated so far, and how it shall be in the future.
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[ 341 ms ] story [ 903 ms ] threadI'm completely APPALLED at how many outright fascists have crawled out of the HN woodwork this year.
Moreover, given that this political project places Tech itself front-and-center (both in the use for furtherance of the project as well as serving as the model being emulated/extrapolated), I think it is wholly on-topic for HN.
None of this analysis strikes me as particularly unkind or unfair. I hope the conversation can at least tackle the thorny issues of how tech has been implicated so far, and how it shall be in the future.
All the best,