A place to meet people with different opinions and have discussions about those opinions It depends on the topic. Recently, many topics have laid bare the gro

A place to meet people with different opinions and have discussions about those opinions It depends on the topic. Recently, many topics have laid bare the groupthink attitude of the HN community. Any comments even questioning those views, much less actually expressing an opposite view, are instantly downvoted and derided in replies. This attitude is pervasive, all the way up to management. I am currently rate-limited, for example, because I was against GDPR. I was told by @dang: ”I'd be happy to lift the rate limit after these repetitive GDPR controversy threads have died down.” In other words, as soon as my opinion is irrelevant because there are no threads about it, I can speak again. That’s pretty much as toxic as it gets.