When the computer code many of us are working on is directly shaping that politics I think that we should talk about it and stop hiding behind the bush.

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andy99 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah so find a forum that’s for discussing that and discuss it there. Don’t try and force people who are discussing something else to talk about politics with you. Do you also randomly go onto GitHub issues and start talking politics because the people who are talking about repo bugs are “hiding behind a bush” and should talk about the political things you think are important instead?

	▲	array_key_first 23 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Nobody is forcing you to do anything. You're choosing to comment. You're not being censored nor is your speech compelled. This forum is for hacker news. Some people believe tech news related to politics qualifies, some don't. Your perspective is equally arbitrary. You have no reasoning, no justification. So stop pretending you do.
	▲	paganel 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I don't comment on GitHub issues. I think that forums like this one should discuss politics as affected by computer code seeing as HN is one of the main (for lack of a better word) computer programmers' forums based/located in/with a focus on SV, it's not some random computer forum which specializes in some random computer programming issue. Hacker News is not lambda-the-ultimate.org, seeing them as similar is part of that hiding behind the bush, people commenting on here actually work at companies like Palantir, Alphabet, Meta and the like, companies whose recent involvement in politics affects us all, at a worldwide level. Also see this recent FT article [1] in connection with how the leaders of those companies have gotten a lot reacher since Trump ascended to power for a second time. > Tech titans lined up for Trump’s second inauguration. Now they’re even richer > Silicon Valley bosses who lined up behind the US president for his inauguration have fared well under his administration [1] https://archive.ph/https://www.ft.com/content/674b700e-765d-...