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Comment by Jorengarenar | Hacker News Reader

>they're trying to create a second "x man bad" with elon now that trump is effectively neutered and irrelevant.

Where did you get that Elon and Trump here from?

elon is making a big stink(for whatever reason) about privacy and surveillance, going quite against the federal agencies that do it at least publically.

jack dorsey pledging a million per year to signal in the wake of these revelations is the entire reason the piece this is responding to exists.

trump outrage bait(and real things) was probably the single most guaranteed way to get traffic for these outlets

idk like I said there is no conceivable way I can think of why would the outlet publish such a piece otherwise

I’m so tired of this nonsense. Pre-Elon Twitter did an enormous amount to fight back against government data requests [1]. “Did” as in: actually brought suit against the government repeatedly, both to fight requests on behalf of its users and to expose them. Elon talked a big game about speech and privacy and then proceeded to fire the world class privacy team that did this work. That’s the reality of the situation, and it’s a disaster.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/14/twitter-fights-for-disclos...

this is not a rationalization over what actually happened, that's a different discussion, but about current public sentiment over it. What drives the clickbait is exactly the inflammatory narratives and connections.

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