Re:Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked
by dragonwriter on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @12:06PM
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> It feels like yet another injection of politics into what was previously a tech-focused website.
So, I've had an an account here since 2012, and was a reader before; this kind of comment is older than my presence here, and, if it ever existed, so is the time that HN was a politics-free tech-focussed website. [0]
Political issues, especially tech-adjacent ones or ones that aren't inherently so but which are raised directly in the context of tech issues, have been a major subject here for a very long time.
You are free, of course, to start your own tech discussion site with a firm no-politics (by whatever standard you want to delineate “politics”) rule, if you like.
[0] EDIT: except for a planned-as-brief-and-still-abandoned-early experiment.
So, I've had an an account here since 2012, and was a reader before; this kind of comment is older than my presence here, and, if it ever existed, so is the time that HN was a politics-free tech-focussed website. [0]
Political issues, especially tech-adjacent ones or ones that aren't inherently so but which are raised directly in the context of tech issues, have been a major subject here for a very long time.
You are free, of course, to start your own tech discussion site with a firm no-politics (by whatever standard you want to delineate “politics”) rule, if you like.
[0] EDIT: except for a planned-as-brief-and-still-abandoned-early experiment.