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A propaganda weapon whose founder was just back from a trip to Russia with his Russian wife and whose parent company was incorporated by Giuliani's firm while

A propaganda weapon whose founder was just back from a trip to Russia with his Russian wife and whose parent company was incorporated by Giuliani's firm while he was traveling in Russia... https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1327253991936454663.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1327253991936454663.html

sillycon-valley 6y ago
How dare he have a Russian wife or travel. This is a perfect example of the conspiracies of the left. edit: downvote/flag all you want, the article he linked to is terribly written and makes giant leaps in logic. edit: dang shadowbanned me and not the conspiracy post above me. dang you are a 50cent super solider aren't you. how are we supposed to not talk about politics in a political post? half of the frontpage are political articles. 99% of the comments are political, what's wrong with mine? DONT ALLOW POLITICAL ARTICLES IF YOU DON'T WANT POLITICAL DISCUSSION
- dang 6y ago
  It's against the rules to use this site primarily for ideological battle, and we ban accounts that do it, regardless of which ideology they're battling for. We have to, because it's the primary thing that destroys the curious conversation this site exists for. I've therefore banned this account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with. Yes, the rules are just the same for the opposite ideological side. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - sillycon-valley 6y ago
    You banned the account I replied to right? I was pointing out the conspiracy post... EDIT - because of rate limiting: I've posted in both technical articles and political articles. There have been a lot of political articles recently with the tech bans. I cannot help that. Most of my comments are about freedom of speech, not really a political ideology. I did not create an account to feed hellfire, I created an account to voice my opinion and debate from the other side because I see such one-sided arguments. This is why you have an echo-chamber.
    - dang 6y ago
      I looked at the other account's history the same way I looked at yours. The comment you replied to was not great, but the account hasn't been abusing the site overall, while yours has. If that assessment were the other way around, so would the ban be. Creating an account just to feed hellfire on HN is obviously a bannable offense—it's a way of killing what this site is supposed to exist for. We need an immune system against that. The immune system doesn't care what color the flames are.

sillycon-valley 6y ago

How dare he have a Russian wife or travel. This is a perfect example of the conspiracies of the left. edit: downvote/flag all you want, the article he linked to is terribly written and makes giant leaps in logic. edit: dang shadowbanned me and not the conspiracy post above me. dang you are a 50cent super solider aren't you. how are we supposed to not talk about politics in a political post? half of the frontpage are political articles. 99% of the comments are political, what's wrong with mine? DONT ALLOW POLITICAL ARTICLES IF YOU DON'T WANT POLITICAL DISCUSSION

dang 6y ago
It's against the rules to use this site primarily for ideological battle, and we ban accounts that do it, regardless of which ideology they're battling for. We have to, because it's the primary thing that destroys the curious conversation this site exists for. I've therefore banned this account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with. Yes, the rules are just the same for the opposite ideological side. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- sillycon-valley 6y ago
  You banned the account I replied to right? I was pointing out the conspiracy post... EDIT - because of rate limiting: I've posted in both technical articles and political articles. There have been a lot of political articles recently with the tech bans. I cannot help that. Most of my comments are about freedom of speech, not really a political ideology. I did not create an account to feed hellfire, I created an account to voice my opinion and debate from the other side because I see such one-sided arguments. This is why you have an echo-chamber.
  - dang 6y ago
    I looked at the other account's history the same way I looked at yours. The comment you replied to was not great, but the account hasn't been abusing the site overall, while yours has. If that assessment were the other way around, so would the ban be. Creating an account just to feed hellfire on HN is obviously a bannable offense—it's a way of killing what this site is supposed to exist for. We need an immune system against that. The immune system doesn't care what color the flames are.