The Meme Hustler - Tim O’Reilly’s crazy talk

Post by mr_spothawk » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 12:56 PM UTC

kragen wrote: post #76

danso wrote: post #30

Evgeny Morozov is just a poor man's Malcolm Gladwell, and one focused solely on being contrarian to anything future-thinking, which makes him a darling for old media. Here's a recent interview with him from Gawker: http://gawker.com/5990608/a-discussion-with-evgeny-morozov-s... Here's he talks about something he thinks he read on Hacker News: http://gawker.com/5990608/?post=58282779 > I don't think we should ban them…

Are you saying that Morozov should have been talking about ridiculing Libertarians instead of ridiculing tech blogs when he brought up that assertion? Perhaps that seems like a major error to you? I don't think it would to him.

Post by room271 » Wed, Apr 03, 2013, 12:18 PM UTC

potatolicious wrote: post #31

bjhoops1 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, what a surprise - the top comment on a HN post comes from a reader who dismisses the post outright despite failing to actually read it in its entirety.

Your ad hominem attack against me is not appreciated, nor is your attempt to treat me as a category and stereotype rather than a real person behind a keyboard. Like others here, I make it a general rule to read everything, and even consulting other sources, before commenting. Like others here also, I had not the time nor the inclination to go through the entirety of a 16,000 word behemoth of writing when the first 8,…