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We Should All Have Something To Hide

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Resurfaced independently across 3 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
4
submitters
4
observed span
2013–2016
peak thread · 147 comments
438 pts
latest 20+ return · 2016-02-27
239 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

First comments on top threads

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"""Imagine if there were an alternate dystopian reality where law enforcement was 100% effective, such that any potential law offenders knew they would be immediately identified, apprehended, and jailed. If perfect law enforcement had been a reality in MN, CO, and WA since their founding in the 1850s, it seems quite unlikely that these recent changes would have ever come to pass. How could people have decided that marijuana should be legal, if nobody had ever used it? How could…

coldtea·438-point thread·

There are a couple different arguments that have been developed to counter the government requests/propaganda for access to our data. Here, Moxie works on one I don't think has been popularized yet- To reform unjust laws, people must be able to break those laws. That is an argument against allowing the government to have total information awareness, because that access would allow the government to enforce laws perfectly, which would make some unjust laws permanent. I believe that is the…

The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.

Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
687

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Total comments
185

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2013-06-12We Should All Have Something To HideFirst breakout · Best threadtptacek438147
2015-01-28We Should All Have Something to Hide (2013)striking20
2015-06-01We Should All Have Something to Hidebootload80
2016-02-27We Should All Have Something to Hide (2013)Latest 20+ point returncitizensixteen23938