Hacker News Reader

I'm paranoid about clicking on any links regarding these revelations on a site self-labelled "hacker"-news... even reading The Guardian!

And it disturbs me. I'm quite certain I'm on a algorithmically generated shortlist as a result of following this mess.

I know the internet hasn't been the 'wild west' for quite some time, but it morphed into 'panopticon' pretty damn quickly.

Shortlist? That would be a very, very long list. So long in fact as to be totally useless. There is a cure for Internet paranoia. Fresh air and sunshine.

Shortlist? Used as a metric between deciding whether your get you next job, your affordable insurance policy.... long lists are easy to store and use with prejudice.

I'm thankful that fresh air and sunshine is a viable pursuit for my weekend sojourn. Not so much for urban poor.

"No jingoism here" => proceeds with jingoism.

Keep up with that

You probably should not trust any news sources that come from these two domains anyway. Pretty much guaranteed to be Russian or Chinese propaganda.

As opposed to the propaganda free US media?

US media is mostly privately owned.