Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week
This is a terrible decision. The tech industry has built powerful tools of social control, and runs vast databases of private data on pretty much everyone in the country. We have a golden period of forty-some days before a new administration comes to power that has shown every intent of using that information to deport people and create a national Muslim registry.<p>We need to be talking about the political implications of what we&#x27;ve built, and figuring out how to fix our mess.  This is like the period before the hurricane: everyone should be busy boarding up windows, and you can&#x27;t do that if you decide you&#x27;re just not going to talk about the coming storm because it makes you feel bad.