alt Hacker NewsWe keep mocking and laughing at the "internet Thomas Jefferson"s of the world but they seem to be getting increasingly prescient about the dystopian world where we are giving bad actors disproportionate control over our lives on the pretext of keeping us or children safer.
I will agree with your point, and will also say a lot of the "bad actors" are actually in the house here. So don't take anything on face value. Hacker news has some straight computer criminals, adware types, cryptobros, dubious startup types, whoever is vibe-coding these crawlers, and etc. So of course they all believe in "maximum freedom" (to scam people).