[SomeStupidPoint]

I'm not sure I understand what's the contradiction between those two things -- he says that people don't like certain kinds of sharing and a large corporation with a lot of cyber security experience assists a government with security while also monitoring its own platform for abuse during the election.

[forthefuture]

People are retroactively upset that they didn't do this during our election.

[imron]

All the while pretending it was only one side engaged in such tactics.

[tessierashpool]

The Russians took out ads to depress African-American voter turnout, in Trump's favor.

The Clinton campaign did not do anything remotely similar.

[tyfon]

I'm not sure if this constitutes politics or what on HN, but as an outside, not taking part in the election and living in another country, here is my observation on this point.

Hillary f*ed up the Bernie Sanders campaign using pretty much the same tactics, only it was not the "Russians", they just did it themselves[0].

If anyone are to be accused for a dirty campaign it is her.

[0] https://www.salon.com/2016/06/20/congressional_black_caucus_...

[lern_too_spel]

On the contrary, your article doesn't say what you claim, and Clinton led the charge to enfranchise black voters. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/politics/democrats-...

[imron]

Well, at least future candidates know that they no longer need to spend billions on their campaign and can just spend a few hundred thousand on targeted Facebook ads instead.

> The Clinton campaign did not do anything remotely similar.

We are in agreement then that Clinton campaign was on a whole 'nother level.

[phs318u]

Apologies, but going off-topic to respond. It's highly likely that when all the Russia stuff plays out, Trump's campaign will be seen to have been so full of moles as to make the Cambridge Five look like amateurs.

In terms of sheer audacity, the Russian campaign is unprecedented in ambition and success. The CIA will be unpicking this cluster-fuck for a decade at least.

[jessaustin]

After Trump is reelected he will close down the CIA. (To be clear: without my vote! He is a cretin and a horrible man and I would never vote for him. Still, I can be happy about happy events...)

That action will deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, but he won't get it.

[sschueller]

Are you absolutely sure about that?

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/56638#efmAAGAA2...

[squozzer]

Let's stipulate the ads were deployed. Any proof that they worked?

[owebmaster]

Oh boy, as a Black guy I'd like to be able to flag this comment alone. This accusation is racist and criminal.

[puppetmaster30]

You have a lot of imagination.