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And the down votes prove your point... Incredible.

• scarmig 7y ago
  I love how downvotes on Hacker News have become a totalitarian attack on free speech.
  • PavlovsCat 7y ago
    They're proof of cowardice and intellectual dishonesty. That's enough.
    • ionised 7y ago
      Oh the irony.
      • PavlovsCat 7y ago
        What irony?
• darkwizard42 7y ago
  Or perhaps its just a reminder to the user that free speech does not need to be extended by private organizations...They have in their TOS to remove content they do not deem fit in the same way users do not need to use these services.
  • remarkEon 7y ago
    Was it okay for communists to be blacklisted in Hollywood in the 40s and 50s? I personally don't have a problem with it, but I am not a communist.
    • maxheadroom 7y ago
      >I personally don't have a problem with it, but I am not a communist. The way this reads to me is: If you were against it, it could only be because you were a communist. #mcCarthyism
      • remarkEon 7y ago
        It’s a reference to a rather famous text from Martin Niemöller, about what happened in Nazi Germany. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...