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To accommodate the demands of CPC on this site would do this site more harm than good. It's obvious they don't respect the need for free and open speech. You ca
by devoply 7y ago
To accommodate the demands of CPC on this site would do this site more harm than good. It's obvious they don't respect the need for free and open speech. You can't really dialog with people like that without losing as over time they will strong arm you into only saying what is acceptable to them.
- ourlordcaffeine 7y agoDoesn't ycombinator have operations in China? If so it should be pretty easy for the CPC to twist yc's arm until they start censoring hackernews.
- dang 7y agoNothing like that has come close to happening, not just about China but about anything, for as long as I've been admin. Our world would have to go through a series of state changes for anything of that nature to become possible. That would be dismaying, so it's good that there aren't any signs of it.
- thoughtstheseus 7y agoYes, they hired Qi Lu, former COO of Baidu and last I checked thye had a start-up program based in China. I'm sure they have the technical abilites to censor if they choose to.