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I feel the reason why Hacker news needs to stay apolitical is simply that politics is everywhere. If I wanted to hear about politics I would just goto CNN or Fox News or CNBC.

I just want to hear about technology and enjoy myself.



That's a childish take that avoids reality. The tech you like is instrumental to terrible political decisions, whether you like it or not.


Great. Discuss those decisions elsewhere and let us discuss the technology.


You don't get it do you. You can't decouple the technology from the use that people that control you make of it.


You don't get it, do you. Technology is only political for brief periods. When introduced, they are apolitical, existing to solve a specific problem. They become political based on usage. Then, the technology either becomes obsolete or so ubiquitous as to make any politics largely irrelevant.

That said, I don't think technology should be either political or apolitical. If there's a need to use a technology to solve a political problem, then do so. Once done, one should just revert to the natural state of enjoying or abandoning the thing for what it is.




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