Hacker News is where purely tech-focused people discuss purely tech issues.<p>Discussing politics is generally discouraged.<p>But now, tech is political.
Big Tech—FAANG and others—have become political blocs, in some cases more powerful than national governments. SpaceX is vital to Ukraine, for example.<p>So how do we talk about this?<p>We need to consider the influence and direction tech leaders are pushing toward (Private Cities?).<p>What about this piece?
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Not all tech is political. People can discuss the non political tech here without issue. For the political issues related to tech one could spin up their own similar site to HN, a forum or Mastodon or some other platform of their choosing. It will get heated so put it behind a CDN and use a throw-away registrar, domain, bank, etc... If feeling really adventurous use one of the chan platforms to discourage identities. For more fun create a <i>web-ring</i> of sorts and link to each others experiments. A person could link to their site in their profile ideally with some warning.
> So how do we talk about this?<p>You can talk about it on many, many sites across the web. You will soon find that talking politics is useless. You're not going to convince anyone that they are wrong, just as their arguments will not alter your view. It is a waste of electrons.<p>Still, many sites welcome it as it generates traffic for their ad revenue. Keep users engaged in heated 'debates', to eek out a few cents more.<p>Please, keep politics out of HN. Let's keep this site reasonably sane, whatever that means.