> Maybe YOUR benefit, but you've been privileged to export misery and suffering to other people around the world.
This is exactly what I would say about someone cozily working at Google in Silicon Valley. I literally deal with the costs imposed on seniors and less technically literate users by Google's ad nightmare on a daily basis.
And before you get high and mighty about how bad the government is compared to Google, remember that Google is built upon and protected by that very same government, and that Google's NetPAC is actively contributing chunks of many Googler paychecks (perhaps even yours?) to fund the very worst members of that government: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1164945275066056704
I've rate-limited your account again and we will ban you again if you keep using HN as a platform like this. I know your views are sincere, but the way you pursue them has obviously left intellectual curiosity behind a long time ago. Worse, inundating HN threads with whatever agenda you're prosecuting has a destructive effect on the discussions.
This is not cool, and has happened more than once before (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17216664). This is not a site for platforms, agendas, megaphones, campaigns, or harangues. It's for thoughtful conversation about curious things: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Since the mechanics of the internet will now lead others to accuse me of pro-Google bias, I'll add that we've repeatedly banned accounts for pro-Google agenda-ness just the same way. Our concern is not Google or any other $Bigcorp, it's protecting HN.
And I and many others protest that, like we protested ALEC. I have friends at Microsoft who have lodged similar protests. I'm working on privacy preserving technology, that's my contribution. I'm trying to make things better.
Hand waving away US government's vastly more destructive tendencies, and the demonstrated abuses of government surveillance doesn't strike me as helpful. On the long laundry list of bad things Trump is guilty of, misogyny sits below the current proxy war in Yemen which started under Obama but has been boosted by Trump and Kushner.
It's now up to almost 100k dead, 45k wounded, and an incredible 84,000 children dead from starvation.
But hey, we have checks and balances on this right, thanks to FOIA? Can we get Trump's tax returns yet?
This is exactly what I would say about someone cozily working at Google in Silicon Valley. I literally deal with the costs imposed on seniors and less technically literate users by Google's ad nightmare on a daily basis.
And before you get high and mighty about how bad the government is compared to Google, remember that Google is built upon and protected by that very same government, and that Google's NetPAC is actively contributing chunks of many Googler paychecks (perhaps even yours?) to fund the very worst members of that government: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1164945275066056704