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Re: Ask HN: What's with flagging articles criticizing Musk?

#11

Post by zfg »

mikequinlan wrote: post #7

Hacker News Guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

So much of the tech industry is now precisely about politics and power.

Hacker News cannot be afraid to look at it, cannot run away from it, and, if you're part of the tech industry, must take responsibility for it.

Re: Ask HN: What's with flagging articles criticizing Musk?

#12

Post by pvg »

zfg wrote: post #11
mikequinlan wrote: post #7

Hacker News Guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

So much of the tech industry is now precisely about politics and power. Hacker News cannot be afraid to look at it, cannot run away from it, and, if you're part of the tech industry, must take responsibility for it.

Most things are in some way connected to politics and power and they're regularly discussed here, along with their political implications and power dynamics. That still doesn't mean every news story is worth discussing here given that it's a forum with the explicit goal of not discussing most news stories.

Re: Ask HN: What's with flagging articles criticizing Musk?

#13

Post by belter »

It's about Musk but also SpaceX now controlling the US finances...

"Elon Musk staff has been caught installing drives inside the OPM office":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42903499

"Elon Musk's DOGE reportedly gained "full access" to the federal payment system":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902670

Re: Ask HN: What's with flagging articles criticizing Musk?

#16

Post by zfg »

pvg wrote: post #12
zfg wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So much of the tech industry is now precisely about politics and power. Hacker News cannot be afraid to look at it, cannot run away from it, and, if you're part of the tech industry, must take responsibility for it.

Most things are in some way connected to politics and power and they're regularly discussed here, along with their political implications and power dynamics. That still doesn't mean every news story is worth discussing here given that it's a forum with the explicit goal of not discussing most news stories.

But it's not in "some" way connected. It's now explicitly and directly connected.

You can't look the other way anymore.

Re: Ask HN: What's with flagging articles criticizing Musk?

#17

Post by pvg »

zfg wrote: post #16
pvg wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most things are in some way connected to politics and power and they're regularly discussed here, along with their political implications and power dynamics. That still doesn't mean every news story is worth discussing here given that it's a forum with the explicit goal of not discussing most news stories.

But it's not in "some" way connected. It's now explicitly and directly connected. You can't look the other way anymore.

Look away from what? Musk and his antics show up in threads regularly. But it can't be on the front page 5 times a day. There's an article discussing current admin shenanigans on the fp right now.

Re: Ask HN: What's with flagging articles criticizing Musk?

#18

Post by palmfacehn »

zfg wrote: post #16
pvg wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most things are in some way connected to politics and power and they're regularly discussed here, along with their political implications and power dynamics. That still doesn't mean every news story is worth discussing here given that it's a forum with the explicit goal of not discussing most news stories.

But it's not in "some" way connected. It's now explicitly and directly connected. You can't look the other way anymore.

Does anyone have anything new to say on these topics? We're going around and around in circles. Is there a substantial discussion? Do we learn anything new?

Re: Ask HN: What's with flagging articles criticizing Musk?

#19

Post by zfg »

pvg wrote: post #17
zfg wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But it's not in "some" way connected. It's now explicitly and directly connected. You can't look the other way anymore.

Look away from what? Musk and his antics show up in threads regularly. But it can't be on the front page 5 times a day. There's an article discussing current admin shenanigans on the fp right now.

In your previous post you tried to deny and minimize the problem.

That kind of apathy is exactly what you can't afford to look away from.

Re: Ask HN: What's with flagging articles criticizing Musk?

#20

Post by zfg »

palmfacehn wrote: post #18
zfg wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But it's not in "some" way connected. It's now explicitly and directly connected. You can't look the other way anymore.

Does anyone have anything new to say on these topics? We're going around and around in circles. Is there a substantial discussion? Do we learn anything new?

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