[xtracto]

Lately? HN is a forum derived from an American company and promoting Silicon Valley culture. Most of the points of view of everything (not only politics) are strongly skewed towards American culture and beliefs. I would find it surprising if it was different .

[tptacek]

Roughly 10% of HN is in SFBA, 50% in US, and 30% in Europe. SFBA people are a small minority here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40745850

[roenxi]

There'd probably be a fairly strong seeding effect though.

And HN is anything but a random sample people from a given country; to be part of the tech scene you kinda have to take an interest in what is happening in the US and it certainly pays to be pro-SV since historically they provided a lot of well paid jobs. That'd be a huge bias in opinion.

[tptacek]

I think it's usually a bad idea to attribute any broad sentiment to HN as a whole, but if you wanted to make the point that it's a tech industry forum and thus shares (with many counterexamples!) tech industry biases, that's a much more grounded thing to say than that it's a "Silicon Valley" site.

I will say this, though, and it's a wild guess so take it as you will: the median opinion among American tech industry workers about the government of Bolivia is: not, in any way at all, ever once thinking or caring about the government of Bolivia.

[karlzt]

I wonder how many use VPN and/or Tor.

[cpach]

I would guess somewhere between 5-15%, but I would be surprised if it was over 10%.