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It's not the support that I find appalling, this is fine in a free-speech society, but the issue i have with modern HN is that any sort criticism of censorship
by throwawayswede 5y ago
It's not the support that I find appalling, this is fine in a free-speech society, but the issue i have with modern HN is that any sort criticism of censorship as an act regardless of the content or who's the person on the receiving end gets a tremendous amount of downvotes (almost instantly), which makes me think that the majority of people here (or those who read comments) believe that censorship is OK depending on the topic. For example: censoring Alex Jones is OK no matter what the context is, but censoring criticism of North Korea is not ok. So they clearly understand the concept, they just choose to apply it selectively and think that's fine. This varies depending on the person and the circles the go in.
Almost every single comment I make with that sentiment gets instant downvoted or flagged.