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Comment by icebraining | Hacker News Reader

If I had my own discussion site, I'd permaban anyone who used that fucking word.

Unless someone is demanding legislation to force Google to keep Reader alive, stop with the entitlement bullshit. We are entitled to dislike business models and approaches, we are entitled to criticize them, and we are entitled to not use projects from companies which follow them.

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I think the type of entitlement the OP is talking about goes far beyond your examples. It's one think to dislike a company and criticize its decisions, but it's another thing entirely to say they have an "ethical responsibility" to keep old products alive, which some in this thread are doing. Google owes you nothing as a user and your more then welcome to leave their platform as I'm sure a statistically insignificant amount of people did after Reader got shut down.

You're right. But you're not entitled to Google Reader. So stop complaining about it and upvoting posts that complain about it.

You didn't really read the OP, did you? =]

Edit: If you did, and that's your takeaway, I think you started with a predefined notion about its content. Please read it again and try to forget about reader. Reader is not the point. (I'm not the author btw ;)

The GP complains about the entitlement directed towards the shutdown of Reader. The OP complains about the word entitlement being used at all and I agree with him, except that the GP is right that no one is entitled to Reader. I then go on to say that people should stop complaining about it.

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