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This one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42907961

The problem is that so much of the tech industry is now precisely about politics and power. The problem is that so much of the tech industry it is now explicitly and directly connected to it.

If Hacker News doesn't have the wherewithal to face up the these realities then it really should think about a name change.

Maybe "Happy Fun News" or something.

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I don't understand what that's supposed to be denying. I'm just explaining how HN works. The connection between tech and politics is hardly new and it's discussed on HN all the time. I mentioned there is a current events discussion on the front page right now and I got it wrong - there are two, and that's not counting the many places these topics come up in other threads. I just don't see how you arrive at this 'looking away' business. Not having a thread for every Elon Musk goosestep is not 'looking away', it's just no the sort of place that has a thread for every Elon Musk goosestep.

There's links to literally years of explanations of this stuff in my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42907475