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dang, there was a comment here by someone else which was linking to their comment on another HN post and how it got downvoted (even though now they are proven r
by busymom0 7y ago
dang, there was a comment here by someone else which was linking to their comment on another HN post and how it got downvoted (even though now they are proven right). I was replying to that comment until HN told me that comment has been flagged and now it's not even visible on this post. This is quite sad from a community which is supposed to be of scientists (who are usually supposed to be a bit skeptic).
This was my reply to that comment:
Similar to how Twitter, FB and IG banned several accounts (I won't name them as I don't want to get in political wars on HN) which had been questioning the origins of the virus since January. Some people who were saying back in January that China was lying and this could end up becoming a pandemic were called names and fringe conspiracy theorists and banned. Now even Taiwan is showing emails from December that they had been warning about China's lies to WHO but were ignored.
I really dislike how being skeptic now a days gets you labelled with bad names and removed.
- dang 7y agoThis community is not "supposed to be of scientists" and it's certainly not a scientific forum. It's an internet watercooler. People speculate. If you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22904356 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22904356, that comment was flagged by users; rightly so since it broke the site guidelines. (You need to set 'showdead' to 'yes' in your profile to read dead comments.)