[southernplaces7]

>This is hacker news. Hackers generally do not like authoritarianism.

Some of the people on this site maintain a strong anti-authoritarian, instinctive and philosophical hacker instinct, sure..

Many others however are just about as fully establishment, self-serving techno-elitists as you could want. One this site there's no shortage of such authoritarian types who happily defend all kinds of social control notions by default, while embracing a supposed need to monitor and herd "average" people for their own good.

The "Hacker" in Hacker News is more a cute marketing phrase than a real description of any such dominant ethos here.

Edit: And the post for this thread just got flagged. Amusing indeed.