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I agree with you, but I could say the exact same thing on the "Russia hacked the election" conspiracy. And yet, if you do a search on HN, people who get down-vo
by jfabre 9y ago
I agree with you, but I could say the exact same thing on the "Russia hacked the election" conspiracy. And yet, if you do a search on HN, people who get down-voted and flagged are those who don't support the theory.
- _jal 9y agoLet's see: one is a transparently ginned-up story in the mold of the Vince Foster nonsense. The other has and is playing out partly in public, with the man at the center of the controversy going out of his way to confirm some of the suspicions. I'm certainly not going to claim that HN doesn't have collective biases. But thankfully, one of those is a bias towards looking at reality. Certainly not a perfect one, but in general facts work a lot better here than hot air does.