Lost plenty of potential and actual users, and also gained a ton of protest-supporting users because that’s how they can best inflate the appearance of support

Lost plenty of potential and actual users, and also gained a ton of protest-supporting users because that’s how they can best inflate the appearance of support for their cause (and also because HN attracted the attention of the hostile foreign agents who are instigating these social disruption movements in the West.) IMO HN would do well to ban political and social-movement posts entirely.