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You just need a few saboteurs coming in and posting "hate speech" on your forum and then reporting the same. Before you know it, you are banned, you have (sever

• paxys 6y ago
  The oldest trick in the book for governments and large organizations. Large peaceful protest happening? Send some goons to blend in and cause trouble, and arrest everyone.
• Lammy 6y ago
  > if you are "friends" with the big-boys or the mainstream media For example: Bohemian Club was originally founded by San Francisco newspapermen in 1872, and you can see how many friends they have in very very high places. Manufacturing Consent is not a new phenomenon. https://web.archive.org/web/20110720044742/http://library.sonoma.edu/regional/faculty/phillips/bohemian.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20110720044742/http://library.so...
• sneak 6y ago
  Guilt/censorship by association: your group, or ability to post, can be shut down by something someone else entirely did. We desperately need to abandon centralized platforms. Continuing to donate content to them will never rid us of them.
• dmingod666 6y ago
  Hacker news is just a bunch of hateful people inciting violence. There, DoS in one sentence.