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Forget I said anything. HN is infiltrated by propaganda without people even realising.
by ulfw 6y ago
Forget I said anything. HN is infiltrated by propaganda without people even realising.
- forsaken 6y agoLike...China?
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- draw_down 6y agoAh, you see, it’s different when they do it.
- myopenid4 6y agoWell China does have a valid reason to outlaw Google et. al, because they publicly siphon your data and are not shy about it. Also if you're gonna downvote, provide a reason and counter-point. This isn't reddit and the downvote button is not for "I don't like this".
- gpm 6y ago> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. > Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. From the guidelines Downvoting because you disagree has also been acceptable on this site, since basically forever https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
- myopenid4 6y agoI'd argue HN is worse than Reddit, at least there are more diverse views there instead of a bunch of boomer neckbeards jerking each other off here.
- woutr_be 6y agoCan you point out some obvious propaganda? And not just some argument you disagree with?
- gpm 6y agoThis is frequently an unreasonable request. To take an example from higher in this thread (not proving his claim), you can easily say that CGTN French does not have 20 million subscribers, but you can't easily say that any individual subscriber is fake. The same can apply to social media, it can be pretty obvious based on commenting patterns that there is some propaganda going on in posts blatantly about China, without it being able to identify with any degree of certainty which comments are problematic. (I take no stance on whether or not there is obviously propaganda here, the commenting and voting does strike me as suspicious, but not to the degree that I think it's a slam dunk that it's not just the result of a biased sample of HN users being interested in posts like this).
- woutr_be 6y agoIf you point to a comment that only has pro-China comments, then yes, it could be seen as propaganda. But especially when it comes to China, when someone has an opinion that slightly goes against the general sentiment, it's marked as propaganda, or a paid troll, just as a way to invalidate their opinions. Hence why I'm asking, because I don't see any obvious propaganda here. Just people with a different opinion trying to have a discussion about it. And I'm only asking because someone pointed it out without posting evidence.