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HN censored Marco Arment?
I tried submitting this link - https://marco.org/2016/10/17/shame-on-y-combinator and it said the link was already submitted, so I started looking for the link to read the discussion but couldn't find it anywhere including https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=marco.org
Was it censored?
- _pius 10y agoHere it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12731270 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12731270
- imartin2k 10y agoIt deserves to be on the front page as part of a debate, that's for sure. Weird that it's been flagged.
- epaga 10y agoSo much for "We should talk to each other more, not less."
- epaga 10y agoAfter realizing the posts were marked as dead automatically due to flags, I take this back.
- bakli 10y agoLooks like even this thread has been silenced.
- epaga 10y agoI've reached out to HN via email, will be interested in their response.
- epaga 10y agoFor posterity's sake, here is their response: It was flagged by users, and then vouched for. As of this morning that submission was not dead, but isn’t the active discussion, which is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12733024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12733024. Moderators haven’t penalized these posts at all.
- tptacek 10y agoI flagged it, as I'm sure others did: it's meta-drama, and it's based on a false claim about censorship on HN. The HN moderators have done the exact opposite of censoring this story.
- mattbee 10y agoYup, any discussion of Thiel or YC's ethics is flagged, e.g. these threads with hundreds of comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12726970 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12726970 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12716825 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12716825 Because the discussions weren't "civil" (IMAGINE).
- tptacek 10y agoThis is false. Please don't spread innuendo like this. I'm all over the other thread about Marco Arment's post, but I've flagged a bunch of other YC/Thiel stories.
- stewartUK 10y agoYeah, that doesn't look good. Still interesting that people have the reflex to shut things down, even though they should know better. https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/582t9v/y_combinator_censors_marco_arment_for_his_opinion/ https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/582t9v/y_combinat...
- 1_listerine_pls 10y agoGuess we need an independent HN
- sctb 10y agoNo, moderators have not penalized this or other Thiel stories. Users flagged this one before we could override them, but the discussion is now taking place here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12733024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12733024.
- cpt1138 10y agoI think we should all read this http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about_p2/ http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-on... Thiel has stated that giving women the vote was a bad idea. https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio... Basically he believes in the rest of the country outside the city and the old ways in which they were not so desperate. Its not hard to understand or be somewhat compassionate. We are trying to exert our "power" to get rid of him, and in the exact same way he is exerting his "power."