Ask HN: Questions about subversive programmers, NSA inside Mozilla?

Re:Ask HN: Questions about subversive programmers, NSA insid... by deoptimo on Thursday July 16, 2015 @07:28PM (#9900490)

The ratio of comments to votes in this thread is a perfect example of the "chilling effect" surrounding this topic and the limits it creates on free speech.

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Re:Ask HN: Questions about subversive programmers, NSA insid... by doktrin on Thursday July 16, 2015 @07:37PM (#9900529)

Are you really implying that people are refraining from commenting out of fear they're being monitored?

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Re:Ask HN: Questions about subversive programmers, NSA insid... by dhimes on Thursday July 16, 2015 @07:41PM (#9900550)

Personally I am not commenting because I don't know much about the issue at hand.

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Re:Ask HN: Questions about subversive programmers, NSA insid... by zobzu on Thursday July 16, 2015 @08:36PM (#9900742)

the same really. I don't think anyone will know for sure. The poor guy might just have not caught the issues back then. Or maybe it was malicious and still is.

It's hard to say. In these cases, the wisest option is "innocent until proved guilty". False positives are worse than false negatives.

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Re:Ask HN: Questions about subversive programmers, NSA insid... by tptacek on Thursday July 16, 2015 @08:45PM (#9900769)

BURN HIM. HE'S A WITCH.

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Re:Ask HN: Questions about subversive programmers, NSA insid... by sarciszewski on Thursday July 16, 2015 @09:03PM (#9900822)

Does he float?

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Re:Ask HN: Questions about subversive programmers, NSA insid... by yellowapple on Thursday July 16, 2015 @08:07PM (#9900649)

That's probably more attributable to knowledge of HN's algorithms basing article ranking on the upvote/comment ratio than on any sort of "chilling effect".

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Re:Ask HN: Questions about subversive programmers, NSA insid... by rhino369 on Thursday July 16, 2015 @08:38PM (#9900752)

I'm scared to participate this witchhunt / blacklist! Obama's America!

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