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What do you mean? That seems to be quite literally what is happening? > Metrics corroborate reports of a disruption to YouTube in Pakistan on multiple internet

What do you mean? That seems to be quite literally what is happening? > Metrics corroborate reports of a disruption to YouTube in Pakistan on multiple internet providers; the incident comes as former PM Imran Khan live streams on the platform despite a ban by media regulator PEMRA > … Access was restored after the speech concluded. PEMRA is the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority You may disagree with the notion of a “deep state” but how can you say that censorship of a populist is “not even remotely what happened” ?

A4ET8a8uTh0 4y ago
I have no proof to back it up, but most politically sensitive subjects are likely monitored by various interested parties ( in old country, it is a job to troll internet forums[1] to sway public opinion one way or the other. Needless to say, even on HN I started to view some comments on political news as tainted. It is unfortunate. And HN is in a good position to being able to spot most attempts to derail threads and so on. [1]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/01/undercover-reporter-reveals-life-in-a-polish-troll-farm https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/01/undercover-rep...
- pessimizer 4y ago
  And the dismissal in this case is purely content free, it's just a random insult, and then a successful flagkill. Oh... and snarky twitter tone. > in old country, it is a job to troll internet forums[1] to sway public opinion one way or the other. It's a job everywhere. Right now someone being paid to troll internet forums and comment sections to disrupt conversations about the food coloring used in Skittles.
  - jessaustin 4y ago
    ...successful flagkill... Friendly reminder: users with enough internet points can attempt to rescue inappropriately killed comments by clicking on "vouch". I do it quite a bit, and at least 5% of the time I am rewarded by immediately seeing the [flagged] tag disappear!
mynameisvlad 4y ago
Corporate media are not the ones that are doing the censoring. It was at the direction of the government. jessaustin is trying to allude to it being the same thing that is happening to Trump. The circumstances are not remotely the same and it's disingenuous to do so.

A4ET8a8uTh0 4y ago

I have no proof to back it up, but most politically sensitive subjects are likely monitored by various interested parties ( in old country, it is a job to troll internet forums[1] to sway public opinion one way or the other. Needless to say, even on HN I started to view some comments on political news as tainted. It is unfortunate. And HN is in a good position to being able to spot most attempts to derail threads and so on. [1]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/01/undercover-reporter-reveals-life-in-a-polish-troll-farm https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/01/undercover-rep...

pessimizer 4y ago
And the dismissal in this case is purely content free, it's just a random insult, and then a successful flagkill. Oh... and snarky twitter tone. > in old country, it is a job to troll internet forums[1] to sway public opinion one way or the other. It's a job everywhere. Right now someone being paid to troll internet forums and comment sections to disrupt conversations about the food coloring used in Skittles.
- jessaustin 4y ago
  ...successful flagkill... Friendly reminder: users with enough internet points can attempt to rescue inappropriately killed comments by clicking on "vouch". I do it quite a bit, and at least 5% of the time I am rewarded by immediately seeing the [flagged] tag disappear!

mynameisvlad 4y ago

Corporate media are not the ones that are doing the censoring. It was at the direction of the government. jessaustin is trying to allude to it being the same thing that is happening to Trump. The circumstances are not remotely the same and it's disingenuous to do so.