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I symphathise with that, but HN is a US-centric liberal echo chamber when it comes to political issues, so everything that got to do with government, intelligence and surveillance is automatically labelled 'evil'.

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It's common for ideologically committed users to see HN as being aligned against them. But this perception is in the eye of the beholder, i.e. it's a cognitive bias. Plenty of comments make opposite claims about HN; the difference isn't in HN but in what the commenter identifies with.

Edit: I've written about this in plenty of places: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=.... Not all of those posts are about perceptions of political bias; some are about perceptions of astroturfing. But the two phenomena are variations of the same thing.

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Why did you mark my comment off-topic? Wasn't it directly related to topic discussed in the parent thread?

Your comment was about Hacker News, not the topic. Also, it was unsubstantive, and those are always off-topic.

No, that's not true. HN has lots of posts that are highly critical of the US government and also US corporations.

By the way, if you don't like liberalism (democracy plus free market economics) then what are you for?

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