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Maybe hacker news should forcibly insert a modal saying that they don't think it's true, and make you click through that to display the objectionable content, l
by free_rms 6y ago
Maybe hacker news should forcibly insert a modal saying that they don't think it's true, and make you click through that to display the objectionable content, like twitter does.
Can't have people thinking there's censorship out there.
- cbozeman 6y agoOr they - where "they" is "every social media platform ever" can just not do a goddamned thing, and I'll make up my own fucking mind. This viewpoint that people need or want shit to be labelled for them is the most disgusting, paternalistic, anti-freedom bullshit to disgrace America in recent memory. Too many of these fucking people, not just in tech, but also in politics, have this viewpoint of "nudging people into better patterns", etc. My best friend, a smart man, but by no means the smartest of my friends once said something that resonated with me so strongly I doubt I'll ever forget it: "The problem with freedom is what other people do with it." Turns out people don't always do what you want, and that's the "true" price of freedom. Tolerating other people's stupidity.
- free_rms 6y agoGuess I fell afoul of Poe's law on that one.