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Earlier today, a post linking to this article vanished: https://wmbriggs.com/post/30833/ https://wmbriggs.com/post/30833/. It was generating upvotes and discuss
by insickness 6y ago
Earlier today, a post linking to this article vanished: https://wmbriggs.com/post/30833/ https://wmbriggs.com/post/30833/. It was generating upvotes and discussion.
- mistermann 6y agoPerception is reality. If you control what portions of reality the public is allowed to see, you can control their minds and their behavior. The primary behaviors that need controlling are adherence to authoritarian dictates, and voting.
- vixen99 6y agoPerhaps there is an innocent explanation? Or are HN users not smart enough to decide for themselves and indeed tear apart controversial views on the burning topic of the day should the arguments presented warrant such treatment?
- dang 6y agoThat one was flag-killed by users (I've turned that off now). Moderators didn't see it. The combination of taking an extreme contrarian position and presenting it in a grandiose and inflammatory way is pretty reliably fatal. I'm of two minds about that. On the one hand, I don't like to see contrarian views get killed for being contrarian. On the other hand, if the initial conditions of a thread are that inflammatory, we're guaranteed to get a flamewar, which is bad for this site.