Yes the tech is amazing. But tech is not everything, after 20 years of social media, its pretty clear to everyone that those things can have large long term impact both positive and negative for society, discussing the potential impacts of the tech is not being "political", its just being interested in the future.
Im not sure, what if society only learns through hardships?
Well certainly if you don’t want us to discuss the possible implications ahead, then yes we can only close our eyes and learn from hardship once it’s there, but then what do we learn ? To not close our eyes next time ? We could just do that like now.
I think it depends on the time and place. So in this context it doesnt matter too much, its a billion dollar company, but if it was a guy with a project he just spent all year on, publishing it on HN for the first time, I would expect people to focus less on teh politics and more on the achievement which is something I dont see too often, unless the work is stellar. Perhaps there is just a high bar on HN