Re:US Government Tracking Journalists and Immigration Advocates
by braythwayt on Thursday March 07, 2019 @01:07PM
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You can be as sorry as you like, however:
1. The original HN mission was to discuss “anything that piques our intellectual curiosity.” That is often technology business, but not necessarily.
2. The very word “hacker” implies a certain culture that has ALWAYS been highly interested in anti-authoritarian subjects. News and politics involving freedom of speech, freedom of journalism, and so forth are nearly always close to the heart of the traditional “hacker culture.”
1. The original HN mission was to discuss “anything that piques our intellectual curiosity.” That is often technology business, but not necessarily.
2. The very word “hacker” implies a certain culture that has ALWAYS been highly interested in anti-authoritarian subjects. News and politics involving freedom of speech, freedom of journalism, and so forth are nearly always close to the heart of the traditional “hacker culture.”