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Right now, who do you think looks more ridiculous?

a) Your strawman, who is apparently comfortable without privacy from the government, but does support free speech so they can be racist?

b) The guy who replies to a comment advocating for privacy by derailing the discussion with an inflammatory post, seemingly forgetting that the patriot act had bipartisan support, and in an ironic twist, also presents an anti-free speech position which demonstrates they themselves lack the integrity to defend civil liberties.



Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


You're right, apologies


Probably you’re right I shouldn’t have pointed the finger towards a single faction




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