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> "You missed the many, many articles on surveillance in the US and how that discussion isn't a prerequisite for discussions about China." I must have... The l
by viivaux 8y ago
> "You missed the many, many articles on surveillance in the US and how that discussion isn't a prerequisite for discussions about China."
I must have... The last ones I remember are from like 2014, and as I recall there wasn't much signal in the noise. Feel free to link me to the most recent discussion (DDG shows me nothing - zero results - for the past month when I search "surveillance" on this site, no idea why).
While it might not be a prerequisite, isn't it sort of important context? Because I haven't seen any signs of improvement on this front, while I've seen a very sharp rise in the number of China related posts.
> "you point out that the poster has an interest in stories about China, but not how that's a problem."
I mean, if this site and it's users want to talk about China that much more than the US that's fine, but how is it a problem for me to point that out? And is it perhaps a little disingenuous to call a consistent 40% China related post history with over an 80% negative connotation "an interest in stories about China"?
- dd36 8y agoMaybe he/she’s Chinese or of Chinese descent? I have friends of Taiwanese descent that very much follow China closely and critically.
- viivaux 8y agoMaybe - but I think that if I posted 12 times a week about US transgessions - or German, or Irish, or Australian - I'd be facing a ban in extremely short order. I'd not like to see this normalised.
- striking 8y agoWhy do you think you would receive a ban for that? I don't think you would.
- viivaux 8y ago"Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle. This destroys intellectual curiosity, and we ban accounts that do it." But I heartily encourage you to try it, and let me know how it works out for you. Perhaps you can get away with it by making 51% of your posts about random tech debris.
- bitlax 8y ago> I must have... In the past month there have been 51 articles with the term "surveillance" in the title, though that's not a metric I would use.