> HN was cheering on as EU went after Big Tech companies

HN is not a hive mind or a monoculture. Every time the EU goes after some company, some people always cheer, some people always boo, and some people will cheer some and boo others based on the impact/nuance of the particular policy or company.

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bitpush 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is accurate, however if you look at any thread you can see an overwhelming consensus of opinion. The diversity of views are not equal - in the sense that there isnt equal number of for and against comments.

In most of the threads I have observed about EU action on Big Tech, the overwhelming majority of thoughts are 'for', with perhaps few dissenting thoughts.

	▲	stickfigure 33 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The loudmouths do not necessarily represent a majority of HN users. They're just loud. Some of us find the social-media-bashing threads boring and just go back to our social media.
	▲	gambiting 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It depends what time of the day you log in too. I'm in the GMT time zone, I can literally see a comment go from +20 upvotes in the morning to negative numbers when Americans start waking up. It really shifts your perspective of the site too, because comments move down or even disappear based on the number of votes.

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dlcarrier 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

On top of that, one thing that always gets support is complaining about the status quo, and those comments have been the most upvoted, on either side of the debate

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sieabahlpark 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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