2020-

It's funny, because on HN, it used to be (especially in the wake of Aaron Swartz) the community typically would swing in favor of amnesty.

Legal consequences beyond civil financial penalties for goofing off on the internet? Usually, the HN crowd (or any technical crowd) would oppose such a thing.

But the winds have shifted, have they not?

One has to ask: when? and why? If opinions have changed, what was the blessed event that worked its magic?

You could say it's generational, and that would be true. But the demarcation has very likely been drawn at the cusp of the 2016 election, when much of the world stopped making sense, and, natually, The Internet was blamed.

Truth is, though. The facts as claimed by the official narrative are dubious and absurd. As believable as a UFO.

Facebook? Russian trolls? Subversive media bot influencers? The low-brow term "fake news" instead of the historically understood term:Propaganda? Crackpot conspiracy theories? Anti-vaxxers? Flat earthers?<...