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For anyone wondering why this is relevant to HackerNews:

- There are tech companies and workers in companies outside California,

- A government deploying a militarized police force to execute people in the streets is bad for the economy,

- That government is the United States, and so this is bad for the world economy,

- A lot of the people in our industry are immigrants from outside the United States,

- If you're a HackerNews user in the United States, you can be shot and killed just like this.

>>lynndo+(OP)
Also, that this kind of state violence and collapse of democracy is underway in the country that also happens to be the center of the global tech industry is something that all HNers should care about.

>>lynndo+(OP)
- most of this has been helped by big tech. By algorithms polarizing people, rich people buying social media to further their agenda, etc

>>lynndo+(OP)
Another reason: individual liberty is and has been an important value in the tech community since the 1960s.

>>prime_+9i1
Has it? The original hacker movement surely had it, but is that still the tech community? I feel that since about 2012 the tech community has been money seekers — people who want to own the next AirBNB and Uber — and they don't care about individual liberty.