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Re:Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up... by bavell on Thursday January 12, 2023 @08:51AM (#34353435)
A lot of people here were very dismissive of the Twitter files, showing how closely big govt and big tech work together. I even lamented [0] about it and got tons of pushback ("business as usual"). I had thought at the time this site was very clear-eyed about dangers like these but I'm much less confident in that now and it's apparent even us techies are easily blinded by partisan politics and self-interest.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33917602

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Re:Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up... by simonh on Thursday January 12, 2023 @09:45AM (#34354201)
I think there’s a pretty wide variety of opinions represented here. You’ll find actual debate on almost any issue. For example, not everyone sees government and big tech working together as necessarily being a bad thing, depending what they’re actually doing and why.
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Re:Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up... by john_the_writer on Friday January 13, 2023 @03:43AM (#34365347)
Another reason they're dismissive is because they knew it before the files were released. It's not that we aren't upset about it. It's that we were upset about it years ago and eventually (after being told we're over-reacting) stopped being upset about it.

Oh hey HN people they're doing what you said they would, but we forgot you warned us. We're ready for you to be upset now. Clearly you're not so you're dismissive.

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