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Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News by saagarjha on Thursday August 08, 2019 @01:48PM (#20646756)
> As a share of GDP, surveillance and defense spending has never been higher during peacetime. In other words, it's a bull market and HN is ultimately a beneficiary of the growth of surveillance and defense tech. Hence its interests are overwhelmingly right wing when it comes to suppressing criticism and threats of that tech.

I've seen plenty of criticism of the defense industry here.

Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News by resters on Thursday August 08, 2019 @01:53PM (#20646809)
Mostly focused on the old, incumbent firms like Halliburton.

Google is the Halliburton of information, Facebook is the Halliburton of surveillance.