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Because you can look up some of the same damn discussions from more than 20 years ago on usenet.

For instance:

http://groups.google.com/groups/search?as_q=legitimate+use+o...

I'm sure it's possible to dig up more examples.

It just goes around and around and around. Please leave us our wonderful site for tech and startups and take the politics elsewhere.

>>davidw+(OP)
That might be political, but I don't think that has anything to do with technology.

I don't think it's a fair comparison.

Politics can directly relate to tech and startups.

>>davidw+(OP)
Tech stuff can also go around in circles, the problem with just ignoring politics here and talking about it on other sites is that I haven't seen another community that I would rather discuss or hear their opinions on the subject.

In the 2+ years I've been coming to hacker news I don't really feel the subjects have changed, there has always been broader political, economics, education topics on top of tech and startups.