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This applies to any Western government interest group, at least for small submissions or individual comments that relate to those organizations. Large ones like the Assange release cannot be suppressed, but are full of pro-government comments that would not have been made by any software engineer before 2015.

So either the engineers have changed fundamentally, or ...

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I can see that there is way less interest in Russia China stuff with additional positions against these countries. There where usually is rationally irrationality takes place and most people avoid to say anything.

Or what? Your comment was truncated for me.

...or it's non-software-engineers writing those pro-government comments.

(just the logical conclusion of the statement, intentionally made blank)

Why couldn't the software engineers change? The geopolitical scene is much different today, and it's easy to see threats coming from your opposite pole

Can you elaborate what in your opinion changed in the geopolitical scene?

Russian invasion of Ukraine?

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