Hacker News Reader

It has been truly frustrating when people will blame the "tech industry" for what is essentially reckless behavior from other industries. For a while, it was often the finance sector that did most of the crazy stuff. With crypto being an obnoxious overlap of the two.

View on HN

Data brokers are the OG tech industry. They've been around since the late 60s selling consumer data. Just because it's unsexy data storage and query work doesn't make it less tech.

I mean, somewhat fair. But when people decry "big tech," they aren't talking about these companies.

It has been truly frustrating when arms dealers are punished for what is essentially reckless behavior from warlords, dictators, and drug cartels.

I'm not entirely sure I follow? Most of the "arms" that people love to complain about aren't created or sold by "big tech."

Some of this is that people are rather wrong about just how much smarter some of the big consumer tech companies are.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com