hnbroseph

> I do not want the government deciding "what purposes" e.g. non-commercial, serve the public good. The public gets to decide that.

the public's "decision" on things like this is made manifest by government policy, no?

i suppose it depends on the details, but if you're asked for state-issued identification when processing a return, and you present a falsified document that purports to be state-issued, that's a almost certainly a crime. (even the creation of such a falsified document is likely a crime.)

> Don't hold back technology and society

conversely, don't presume that what you're advocating for is "advancing" technology and society, either.

> Maybe just don't have a government where that's an issue

oh, good idea. but i think that's quite literally the entire point of people's concerns in the first place.

your scenario isn't all that different from how the jdk authors view the use of internal classes, like sun.misc.unsafe.

So the hands dont speak to each other?

without a "minority report"-esque system, or preemptively putting the entire population in cages, you cannot prevent every ill of the world.

something is unclear to me - by 'how is it unacceptable', are you asking how people could possibly disagree?

protest activity. questions. demands for a commitment to human rights. support for democracy and the people of hong kong's efforts.

maybe just annoyed at having to do lots of video editing to hide it from the CCP overlords.

> Criticizing Golang here in HN will get me banned for causing flamewar

that's either reductive or a strawman, if not both. afaict golang doesn't lack for criticism on hn, but most people do so without being insulting or hostile.

i think this is true for AngularJS as well (not to say it didn't arrive with the right features at the right time).

platform gatekeeping, at a guess. though the existence of objective-c makes that status for swift be not-quite-technically-true.

> Anyway, why does the above mean there is no "American Dream" in China, when most the accusations you make can be levelled (in some form) to the US as well

this seems fallacious. it's not clear how the various whataboutisms you're engaging in establishes or relates to "the american dream in china" actually existing or not.

Or perhaps they are smart enough to break into such places :)

Unfortunately swift doesn't have a meaningful windows story, and giving up on 100s of millions of users is less than ideal for most "crossplatform" contexts. :/