It involves all the largest Silicon Valley companies so it will be of interest to everyone running a company or working with technology in the valley and the US.
I'd also argue all the linking from sites like HN and reddit are keeping this in the news since it gets the hits on the mainstream sites. The interest in it on these sites might actually keep the heat on to change this bad situation.
A week or two is too little to give to this immensely impactful story. With that said I am only up-voting stories that I feel are defining of our times and major breaks, trouble is so may of them have been recently.
Yes, we'd all like for it to end and get back to business which we must continue doing but ignoring it isn't going to change the general community interest in it as it is a huge issue.
I'd also argue all the linking from sites like HN and reddit are keeping this in the news since it gets the hits on the mainstream sites. The interest in it on these sites might actually keep the heat on to change this bad situation.
A week or two is too little to give to this immensely impactful story. With that said I am only up-voting stories that I feel are defining of our times and major breaks, trouble is so may of them have been recently.
Yes, we'd all like for it to end and get back to business which we must continue doing but ignoring it isn't going to change the general community interest in it as it is a huge issue.