"A random billionaire takes over a social media company, revokes source code access, fires a ton of engineers on the spot, and proposes to make sweeping changes without first understanding the context of their problems."
If this happened to YOUR company or team (aka at a scale understandable to you), I bet you'd be livid. Rephrasing the above:
"A random manager came onto my team, reorganized the structure and fired a ton of people, and upended our roadmap without understanding our problems."
For me, this is the mask off moment for HN. I'm sick of participating in a website that's become a gathering ground for aggrieved conservatives in tech. Cheering efforts to reduce moderation - efforts which are done for the tangible benefits mental health and general wellbeing of users - for the abstract notion of free speech is disgusting.
