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by ethbr1 36 days ago
> That's actually kind of important to the tech community, considering we are wildly complicit in this.

This should be why modern fascism is of interest to the HN community.

Pretending tools exist in a vacuum is shirking ones ethical responsibility for employing ones skills.

Code is politics by other means.

It's disgusting that we have people who avoid taking ethical ownership of their work on adtech, surveillance capitalism, etc.

"If not me then someone else?"

Then let it be someone else, or admit you're making the world worst in exchange for a bigger paycheck.