[andreygrehov]

The apps have nothing to do with the current administration. All these permissions were already in place before the current administration. It’s easy to verify this by looking at previous versions of the apps. HN has created a narrative that everything the current administration does is bad.

[wodenokoto]

> HN has created a narrative that everything the current administration does is bad.

In all fairness, that narrative has been helped quite a bit by the current administration!

[andreygrehov]

No. That narrative is driven by mass media, which shapes the perception of opinions posted on HN.

[vanviegen]

Ah.. I'm glad it's just a narrative then, and that there are in fact just as many good things to report and that America is not rapidly becoming an authoritarian state.

[alsetmusic]

You're completely out of touch. If one thing the admin does is good for anyone but they and their cronies, even if only by accident, it is a total coincidence.

[Itoldmyselfso]

Fox news, the biggest mass media in US by far, doesn't seem to drive this narrative

[andreygrehov]

Fox News is not popular on HN.

[glitchdout]

For a good reason, don’t you think?

[abustamam]

When a coworker leaves the company and I inherit their work, I am given a little bit of time to acclimate and understand the projects they were working on.

If it turns out a secret was exposed in production, or we're exposing PII in logs, or storing CCs or passwords in plain text, there's a certain time frame in which the blame shifts from my coworker for introducing it, to me for not catching it.

That time frame is a lot less than one year.

[andreygrehov]

So where was that outrage before the current administration? The comments in this submission mostly blame the administration. I verified older versions of the apps and found that the wide permissions were there prior to Trump, and now suddenly it’s "hey, but he did not fix it!" This is hilarious, don't you think?

[abustamam]

"but Biden didn't fix it" isn't the defense you think it is.

Is there a double standard? Yes. This administration earned it through their, willful or not, incompetence and malice.

[andreygrehov]

Where in my comments did I say “but Biden didn't fix it”? What I say is the majority of commenters are wrong blaming the administration.

[abustamam]

> I verified older versions of the apps and found that the wide permissions were there prior to Trump

This pretty much insinuates Biden (and Trump v1, and Obama, and Bush) didn't fix it.

And the commenter aren't wrong when they blame the administration. They wouldn't be wrong to blame previous administrations either. But the previous administrations aren't in power right now.

[andreygrehov]

> And the commenter aren't wrong when they blame the administration. They wouldn't be wrong to blame previous administrations either. But the previous administrations aren't in power right now

They are wrong. The current administration did not make a call to widen the permissions or make it intentionally overly broad.

> This pretty much insinuates Biden (and Trump v1, and Obama, and Bush) didn't fix it.

Why do you believe the president is responsible? Could be just a lazy contractor.

[jrmg]

“The White House” app seems to be new, first published three days ago.

It’s easy to verify this by looking at the App Store listing for the app. And reading news coverage.

[andreygrehov]

Given that all other apps follow the same pattern, I insist that it has nothing to do with any sitting administration.

[DoingFedTime]

An app published March 27th has no prior-administration version history. The other 7 apps in the piece span back to Obama the article treats this as a bipartisan failure.

[dandanua]

As I've said, facts or meaning no longer matter. There are numerous cases where Trump blamed Democrats for something he did during his first term or took credit for something positive that the Biden administration did. HN does not create a narrative, people are free to post their opinions here.

[herbst]

To be fair that's the exact narrative European media seems to draw. Not sure how you could see anything else in this shitshow

[VorpalWay]

As an European, the political situation in US has never seemed reasonable to me, and been on a mostly downhill slope for a long time. It has certainly gotten way way worse with the current administration though.

[abustamam]

My relatives in Malaysia say it went from a slight downhill slope to a cliff and now we're in free fall.

The bottom has to be somewhere...