I'm really, really proud to see my former colleague reaching the front page of HN.
I know the pain and struggle investigative journalism organizations face (especially in infosec). Going through all of this and reaching less people because some dickhead in the United States decided to add these countries randomly really pisses me off.
Even worse are the other countries chosen like Cambodia and Venezuela, which both have Free Basics, and are therefore completely cut off of counting on the Internet (or a part of the Internet selected by Facebook) to spread their activities. Bloggers, pizza shops, investigative journalism organizations... they're all screwed because of one group of dickheads in Silicon Valley.
I've been watching this idly on hckrnews.com; it's been leaving and coming back to the front page with great frequency. As of this post, it's off the front page again (39 and falling).
I would speculate that there are user flags fighting against upvotes at play. That's usually the case when there are still articles from yesterday afternoon with fewer upvotes still on the front page. Unfortunately, the flags usually win, once it's been off the front page for any appreciable length of time.
I know the pain and struggle investigative journalism organizations face (especially in infosec). Going through all of this and reaching less people because some dickhead in the United States decided to add these countries randomly really pisses me off.
Even worse are the other countries chosen like Cambodia and Venezuela, which both have Free Basics, and are therefore completely cut off of counting on the Internet (or a part of the Internet selected by Facebook) to spread their activities. Bloggers, pizza shops, investigative journalism organizations... they're all screwed because of one group of dickheads in Silicon Valley.