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It is the people who want suppression of information. Twitter and FB are responding to user demand. This post has been flagged. People don’t want to see or hea

by cwhiz 6y ago

It is the people who want suppression of information. Twitter and FB are responding to user demand. This post has been flagged. People don’t want to see or hear about this. HN may, or may not, remove it. Either way, there are HN users who want this removed.

luckylion 6y ago
That's just some users though, and I'm 99% sure they don't want others to see it, because they believe knowing about it might damage their political side. I'm sure they have good intentions and believe that the end justifies the means and if suppression of truth is required to let the good guys win, then so be it. Of course, everybody generally thinks they are the good guys, and once you're going down the road of "everything is allowed because my goals are good", you're not going to stop until somebody else stops you.
- SirHound 6y ago
  It’s not the truth though as far as we can tell.
  - cwhiz 6y ago
    You could say that about lots of news that FB and Twitter allow. If FB and Twitter are strictly blocking unverified news then they would have also blocked things like the NYT tax return story. You also wade into some hairy territory of who is verifying news, and why. Facebook and Twitter are effectively acting as editors for select news organizations.
  - matthewdgreen 6y ago
    The one comment in this thread making an utterly factual statement is downvoted.
dang 6y ago
Users flagged it. That's usually what happened. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24890813 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24890813
- cwhiz 6y ago
  I know that users flagged it. That’s exactly my point. Users wanted to bury this.