This just sounds like the standard playbook for this crowd (by which wide brush I mean authoritarians and their enablers). They really hate being called on their lies, and their immediate response is to attack with whatever comes to hand (press release, xeet, the DoJ…depends on the person).

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blitzar 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> this crowd

These companies are tech bros - they are selling to the authoritarians and they are increasingly their enablers, funders and biggest sycophants.

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Mountain_Skies 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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	▲	wredcoll 11 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Don't vague post. Either be specific with names and examples and citations or don't waste our time with generalities about unnamed bad people who did some unspecified bad thing.
	▲	nearlyepic 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Yeah dude, Covid vaccinations were what started us on the slide to authoritarianism. Not 9/11. lol give me a break
	▲	mindslight 11 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yes, five years ago was the start of it all. Everything was just peachy before then. No authoritarian laws, no government surveillance, no enshittification (aka arbitrage of tech authoritarianism), no private surveillance industry creating dossiers on each of us that would make Stasi agents blush. It was all kicked off by HN comments five years ago. </s> Please stop grinding whatever axe you think you're grinding, and put that energy towards something useful.