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No true HN'er... etc.

I check the new stories in a few topic areas regularly. Many interesting tech stories I check are not getting upvotes or comments.

But, even if more of those stories made the front page, the NSA story marks an epoch. Computing and the Internet have changed. It all comes with surveillance inside. That is unattractive. Creepy. Unfree. Undemocratic. Unhealthy. We let our industry get poisoned. It will take years for that story to play out. And it will get discussed here.

>>Zigurd+(OP)
This comment I think has significant merit. It is not really a per-se partisan issue, although it is a profoundly political one. With as you point out pervasive impact, ie on The 'tools of the trade'.