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Hacker News bans the same types of hate speech that Twitter prohibits. Is that "censorship", or only when Twitter does it?
by octonion 4y ago
Hacker News bans the same types of hate speech that Twitter prohibits. Is that "censorship", or only when Twitter does it?
- cato_the_elder 4y agoHN is a forum for nerds, not a public square. Even then, it's quite pro-freespeech.
- case0x 4y agoI hear the twitter = public square analogy a lot but I fail to understand it. Here and on Twitter discussions take place. What is the difference?
- oska 4y agoOne very obvious difference is that twitter does not purport to be a forum for any particular community or field of interest. So in that sense it's much more of a town square in that ppl can (or should be able to) tweet about anything.
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- zaphirplane 4y agoWho is volunteering and binding them to be a public square with slippery slop values
- syshum 4y agoHN seems to be more even handed though with a slight left bias when it comes to enforcement ... Twitter on the other hand has such an extreme political bias that bias is written right in to the (current) rules for the platform To compare the 2 is laughable