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No of course there isn't. And if you're only just now figuring that out, now in 2017? Then you haven't been paying attention. Come on, protesting hasn't been
by featherverse 9y ago
No of course there isn't.
And if you're only just now figuring that out, now in 2017? Then you haven't been paying attention.
Come on, protesting hasn't been real since the requirement of having "permits", and the creation of "free speech zones". We live in a tyrannical police state masquerading as a peaceful democracy, where trouble makers are gunned down by death squads who are later pardoned by the courts.
Just posting a comment like this on the internet will lead to downvoting and social penalties. Did you know that this site participates in the practice of "hell-banning"? That is where they silently blacklist people for expressing their unpopular opinions about any particular subject. Those people can no longer contribute, but they believe that they can because the system lets them post. But nobody ever sees their comments. It's the exact same thing as what the government does.
Many of "the people" belong to the tyrants' pyramid of control and those who don't are brainwashed by it.
"Is there any point to protesting?", hah I say. Wake up.
- kelukelugames 9y agoI know reddit has shadow bans but I am not aware of it on HN. Do you have any proof?
- featherverse 9y agoNo they don't, they just ban people. Maybe they used to, but it's an unpopular method.
- 4ad 9y agoA HN ban is a shadowban. The user doesn't know he is banned unless being told, and he can post normally. You can, however, see all dead posts by enabling showdead option in your HN settings. I encourage everybody to do that. There are extremely few spam posts, most dead posts are dead for different reasons. Often I see people having been shadowbanned for years.
- grzm 9y agoEnable "showdead" in your profile. You can then view posts by banned accounts as well as posts that have been killed.
- dagenleg 9y agoCan confirm, this post is absolutely invisible to me