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Freedom of speech is the right to speak, it is not the right to be heard. Your audience is effectively walking away from your soapbox. Censorship is when there
by zamalek 6y ago
Freedom of speech is the right to speak, it is not the right to be heard. Your audience is effectively walking away from your soapbox. Censorship is when there is interference between a speaker and an audience that would otherwise be captivated.
Nobody here is interested in Trump's lies. Nobody here is interested in hearing his lies being perpetuated. We are not interested and we are not a captivated audience.
- oedoedxef 6y agoAnd yet your comment is also being downvoted. It seems I am the only person interested in hearing what you have to say. An audience is free to view an opinion and disregard it. I'm not sure if that opinion should be hidden from others.
- zamalek 6y agoAnd I am not complaining about it being downvoted. If HN doesn't want to hear it, then I am fine with that. Regardless, please check the comments guidelines[1]. > Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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- nobody9999 6y agoI'd also point out that you can always enable 'showdead' in the settings. That will allow you to see all comments (unless creator deleted). As such, they're not really being censored, they're just hidden unless and until you decide you want to see them.