Comment by raincole

>It's very concerning that you can just make shit up on HN and be the top comment as long as it's to bash Google.

Off topic. I wanted to say somewhat counterintuitively I often upvote / submit things I disagree with and dont downvote it as long as sub comments offer a good counter argument or explanation.

Sometimes being top just meant that is what most people are thinking, and it being wrong and corrected is precisely why I upvote it and wish it stayed on top so others can learn.

> make shit up on HN and be the top comment as long as it's to bash Google.

I don’t think that’s fair. Same would’ve happened if it were Microsoft, or Apple, or Amazon. By now we’re all used to (and tired) of these tech giants lying to us and being generally shitty. Additionally, for decades we haven’t been able to trust reports from big companies which say “everything is fine, really” when they publish it themselves, about themselves, contradicting the general wisdom of something bad they’ve been doing. Put those together and you have the perfect combination; we’re primed to believe they’re trying to deceive us again, because that’s what happens most of the time. It has nothing to do with it being Google, they just happened to be the target this time.