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impulsively down-voted you out of sheer bewilderment that anyone could possibly think that selling an app is more important than a systematic and widespread government invasion of civilian privacy

But not every story about PRISM is important or even telling us anything new. Reflexively upvoting any story that has to do with the government being "bad" is just going to fill the front page with a lot of repeated info (at best) and speculative nonsense (at worst).



...and this neatly explains the "all politics, all the time" nature of HN for the past week. :/




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