People who have used it are generally supportive, if they think about it at all.
What are you basing this assertion on? Have you considered China? Do you know if you can get accurate representations of citizen sentiment on this issue?
HN being HN, is almost entirely in the latter camp regardless of where they live.
Ostensibly we're hackers. We understand how good technologies can be put to inhumane uses. We see it quite often. Many of us hack on software in an effort to eliminate these often unintended consequences.
Still, it would be interesting to know what argument the Yes campaign used that resonated with > 50% of voters.
You should know this isn't the first time the vote was held. In previous referendums the proposal was defeated and this time it only narrowly passed. You might be better served in doing a comparison between the two.
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What are you basing this assertion on? Have you considered China? Do you know if you can get accurate representations of citizen sentiment on this issue?
Ostensibly we're hackers. We understand how good technologies can be put to inhumane uses. We see it quite often. Many of us hack on software in an effort to eliminate these often unintended consequences.
You should know this isn't the first time the vote was held. In previous referendums the proposal was defeated and this time it only narrowly passed. You might be better served in doing a comparison between the two.