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So the censorship on China is fine on HN while censorship on Palestine is flagged? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27638871 https://news.ycombinator.com/i

• dang 5y ago
  That article has been on HN's front page for hours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27645282 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27645282. Just to be clear, [flagged] on a submission means users flagged it, not moderators. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. Users flagged your submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27638871 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27638871), then someone else reposted the article. We turned off flags on the latter. Since yours was the earliest submission of the article, we'd normally have preferred to restore that one, but by the time we saw it that thread was such a wretched tire fire that it was unsalvageable. I explained that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27646075 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27646075. Generally it would be best not to rush to dramatic conclusions like "So the X is ok while the Y is Z?" without having all the relevant information. It makes for dramatic internet comments, but they're nearly always wrong.
  • rguiscard 5y ago
    I did not mean to complain the moderators. I just want to draw the comparison to readers. I understand your points and know it is flagged by readers. It shows people intrinsically view things differently, thus, there won’t be fair view in real and virtual world. HN has done a better job than most of platforms already.