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For the HN Community yes... Far-left / Socialist is the only "acceptable" way of thinking anything Libertarian, (which is labeled "far-right" now) should be s

• writepub 8y ago
  > anything Libertarian, (which is labeled "far-right" now) Not just HN. Almost all tech companies are HQ-ed (at least for policy making purposes) in and around San Francisco. And they ALL behave the same way - impose their world view with impunity on the rest of the population, at a scale unheard of in human history. Just ponder for a moment that some overpaid Mozilla censorship committee employee, enjoying his/her/zi $20 soy latte in their $4000/month studio in San Francisco got to shut down an entire community's online presence with a single click, because they found the speech there disagreeable (not illegal)
• dragonwriter 8y ago
  > anything Libertarian, (which is labeled "far-right" now) US Capital-“L” Libertarians tend to be solid-to-far right as well as libertarian, but, no, genuine center- and left-libertarian isn't usually called far-right by anyone. Also, right-libertarians are a pretty big segment of the HN community, possibly more dominant than anything on the left.
  • gspetr 8y ago
    Uh, personalities like Joe Rogan and Tim Pool have been called far-right[0], then there are also secular muslims who get called "anti-muslim extremists" by SPLC[1]. So unless you want to claim that these aren't "true scotsmen", there are most certainly people who get called far-right, who are anything but. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-A_aNMe1Wk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-A_aNMe1Wk [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maajid_Nawaz#SPLC_claim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maajid_Nawaz#SPLC_claim