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HN may be “heavily” as you say, moderated, but you are allowed to discuss things that counter any narrative as long as you make a reasonable effort at presentin
by mc32 5y ago
HN may be “heavily” as you say, moderated, but you are allowed to discuss things that counter any narrative as long as you make a reasonable effort at presenting your ideas in a reasonable way.
You don’t get banned for criticizing bitcoin, VCs, Hunter Biden, US policies, BLM, the police, inflation, gender, feminism, masculinity, etc., etc, whereas Twitter tends to ban things that go counter to particular narratives even in the face of evidence. You’re a epidemiologist and critique Covid policies? Not allowed!!!
- SirHound 5y agoDrawing equivalence between Twitter bans and government censorship is the height of western privileged ignorance.
- mc32 5y agoNot when the government lobbies the companies for certain viewpoints.
- jrsj 5y agoNot when there’s bidirectional communication happening between govt and tech companies on these issues. We’ve seen them coordinate to erase particular stories from the public narrative etc. They literally have manipulated elections by doing this. These companies were engaged in a covert surveillance program on behalf of intelligence agencies too. That by itself makes them effectively an extension of the state.
- scurraorbis 5y ago
- philistine 5y agoThe only time I see rank propaganda on HN, it’s about stuff Elon Musk loves, like the blockchain or self-driving cars. I dread what he’ll do to Twitter.
- scurraorbis 5y ago[flagged]