Personally, I don't get it. Just because something outrages you doesn't make it HN material. IMHO, the story is 90% politics. Sure, there may be some interesting HN bits, like the tech aspects of how the data was collected, but the
morality and
legality and the
politics of the question are basically side issues that generally lead to intractable flame wars and whatnot and contribute to the redditization of HN.
Exhibit A, from yesterday:
"I hate to use this tone but, so be it. Maybe now you morons who continue to vote in the pieces of shit into our government who are bent on taking more and more power for themselves will wake up and figure it out? How much more proof do you need? Does this make you angry yet or is Obama still your diety? Oh, and Republicans don't get a pass either.
The point is that all of you morons voting like robots along party lines are destroying my country, from the inside, one fucking vote at a time."
This is the sort of tone that makes me want to leave this site for good. It's not that I'm not interested/concerned about this subject -- hell, hit me up for a beer and we can discuss politics all day long -- I just don't think that we need to discuss it here, in dozens of threads.
Exhibit A, from yesterday:
"I hate to use this tone but, so be it. Maybe now you morons who continue to vote in the pieces of shit into our government who are bent on taking more and more power for themselves will wake up and figure it out? How much more proof do you need? Does this make you angry yet or is Obama still your diety? Oh, and Republicans don't get a pass either.
The point is that all of you morons voting like robots along party lines are destroying my country, from the inside, one fucking vote at a time."
This is the sort of tone that makes me want to leave this site for good. It's not that I'm not interested/concerned about this subject -- hell, hit me up for a beer and we can discuss politics all day long -- I just don't think that we need to discuss it here, in dozens of threads.