How long before we'll add an "Outline" link to use that decluttering service?
Gun violence in America is a meaningful problem.
There's a growing sense of a disconnect between "tech" (whatever we take that to mean) and, well, just about everyone else on some of these squishy ethical / legal matters like privacy, accessibility, "fair" taxation (whatever that means), etc.
In a less hand-wavy sense, you could also see this particular story as a failure of technology to account for fallible human systems with limited resources, or for the complexity of real-world legal / political contexts. This in turn leads into discussions of the flaws with government contract procurement processes, as well as meaningful discussions of the importance of a solid UI / UX design process.
Moreover, this article itself is an excellent working example of how to diagnose, drill down into, and present user-facing problems. If more of us who write software understood our users' problems this clearly, we'd build much better software.
If you don't want to see it, hide it.
Having acted, and move on.
