alt Hacker NewsIt’s not an excuse, but gives some luxury of distance. We have a lot more hindsight now on how rotten things can become, so with that hindsight it’s easy to say that companies like Flock shouldn’t exist, or shouldn’t be invested in. Ten years ago required some more leaps in foresight that some people were making, I was, but even I didn’t think it would get as evil as it has.
IDK. We’d already had plenty of spying by companies, the government, police abuse, etc.
It was all quite plain then. And the very heavy rhetoric made it very obvious which direction things would go.