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Comment by boomboomsubban | Hacker News Reader

I'm really not in favor of a government database explicitly tracking my political beliefs. That seems pretty "1984" to me.

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You no longer have to imagine this.

The Minnesota State House, Senate and Governor seat are all controlled by the same party. That party is now planning to use their unchecked power to push through legislation for a program which will track all reported wrongthink:

https://news.yahoo.com/minnesota-lawmakers-lock-horns-over-2...

I have no idea what this supposed Minnesota law is, but I'm certainly not going to watch a video from Fox News to learn about it.

After 2016, I feel like I need to keep an eye on what is going on over there.

I find my life is overall more pleasant the less cable news I watch.

Agreed. Though it’s not localized to cable. Most non-local news is designed to incite fear/anger in you and push you to their thinking, not inform you of what’s going on in the world. In fact most news orgs don’t even work for their own news, they buy it wholesale from news aggregators like Reuters, AP, etc and put their own spin on it.

In my case, I found no benefit to any national/international news orgs and focus solely on local news on the county/state levels.

I don't think they're proposing a system where you're required to disclose your political beliefs... if you weren't comfortable sharing your beliefs with the government, you could simply not submit public comments

Only being allowed a voice if you don't fear reprisals doesn't improve things.

Seems better than an alternative: where the ones with a voice are those who created the most-effective bot network.

I don't feel like I have much of voice when I submit one comment to my legislators, and a kid from California submits 10 million (as mentioned in this case).

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