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Re:Protest note about user privacy changes by Reddit by Shivetya on Friday February 26, 2021 @08:33AM (#26274578)
Small enough that HN does not attract attention of PACs who have basically co opted many of the political related subs on reddit. simple email blasts each morning and alerts through the day to get people to vote on stories and boost specific posters. Can also target people to report or poison a sub

people don't understand how much of what they read on reddit is actively managed by people who want the message controlled. This is the same for any popular social media site with twitter being the top of the heap

just be glad that HN isn't that important to where the issue becomes observable (we get enough indirect political tripe as it is with submissions)

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Re:Protest note about user privacy changes by Reddit by mschuster91 on Friday February 26, 2021 @09:24AM (#26275036)
HN also isn't a space that's dedicated to politics, and when topics do come up the crowd seems mostly "free-market, free speech libertarian"-leaning (although you have a small number of Trumpists as well as socialists like me for some balance).

Even if HN were bigger, it wouldn't be worth the attention of PACs and other activists IMO, the HN crowd is not their voter base. For Republicans the tech crowd is too diverse and immigration-friendly, for Democrats... I'd bet a case of beer that many/most of the US people here vote Democrat anyway since the actions of most Republicans run completely against the needs of tech people.

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