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Re:Former Google and Facebook execs are sounding alarms abou... by Zak on Monday January 01, 2018 @10:58PM (#16049757)
HN used to lean very libertarian. I might need to say "right-libertarian" to be specific enough. That philosophy tends to tolerate large-scale power structures as long as they're not violating the rights of others and remain subject to competition.

I've noticed a shift away from that in the past couple years. The grandparent post doesn't seem to be left-anarchist though; more like state-socialist. It proposes that some central authority, presumably the US government dissolve or split up large tech companies. The problem I have with that is I fundamentally mistrust large scale power structures and centralized authority. The US government is one of the most extreme manifestations of those things.

Re:Former Google and Facebook execs are sounding alarms abou... by StreamBright on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @12:38PM (#16053528)
I only know state-socialist people who did not live in a socialist state.