Love the idea! and the comments feel ... so real!

The only difference is that I never saw porn being shared on HN

I don't think so; (but at the end of the day, you can never be 100% sure unless it's 100% OSS)

But with that being said both Apple and Google store a lot of data about you, and they are willing to "cooperate" with the government, and they did hand over data in various of cases Apple included [1]. For some reason, people think of as the "privacy company".

btw, big tech also get harassed for similar requests: The UK, for example, is still pressuring Apple to build an encryption backdoor [2].

[1] https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/ [2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/uk-still-trying-backdo...

The real issue with regulation isn’t the rules themselves; it’s who ends up writing them. And it’s almost always one of two groups:

Politicians, who usually aren’t experts in the field.

Industry leaders, who have every incentive to make the rules tougher for everyone.

> What I really want to see is Meta getting irrelevant ON MERIT. People stop using Meta products, and then I want to see it die. But not by forcing the hand - that's bad for everyone, especially the enterpreuer / hacker types on this site

I honestly don’t get why so many people jump to the whole "we need the government to save us or we’re doomed" argument. To me, it's simple: put your money where your mouth is. I can’t stand Meta, so I just don’t use their products.

I don't think devs can answer that one, you'll have to ask VCs