Can we keep this political crap off of HN please? Yes, I've clicked flag, but that's not public. All the people commenting on this thread implicitly approve of its presence on HN - so I feel a need to state publicly that I don't.
Yes, it's not exactly on-topic, but we've seen far worse.
The term hacker is not limited to tech and business... it means analyzing all aspects of life, tearing them apart, figuring out how they work, and making them better.
>this isn't just "political crap" as it has many, many implications of the state of the world.
I don't know why you think X being classified as political crap precludes X having implications for the state of the world. That's exactly what political crap does, as well as lots of other types of crap that also have nothing to do with YC or hacking or entrepreneurship or Silicon Valley or technology or CS.
>The term hacker is not limited to tech and business... figuring out how they work, and making them better.
Arguments about words are highly uninteresting: http://lesswrong.com/lw/od/37_ways_that_words_can_be_wrong/. HN is obviously geared towards tech and startups.
You're welcome to ascribe to me, on near-zero evidence, whatever political beliefs you want (though my opinion vector has low cosine similarity to all the standard labels I've encountered, so you'll probably be largely incorrect whatever you guess). All I'll say is that in this case my comment wouldn't have changed at all if the comments all said "They have the right not to do business with someone" or "Would you complain if this was al Zawahiri?" or something else defending Paypal's actions. In fact, I wrote my comment before reading anyone else's.
Really? Because your first comment says:
>All the people commenting on this thread implicitly approve of its presence on HN