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>Say the wrong words and get financially destroyed for ever... This is an incredibly disingenuous take on Jones' actions here. Edit: For additional context, O

• anigbrowl 4y ago
  Perhaps it's cynical rather than disingenuous. ~30% of people derive more satisfaction from seeing someone worse off than they do from mutual benefit - not even a zero-sum mindset, but a negative-sum one because such people are willing to incur a loss as long as it correlates with someone else experiencing a greater loss. Put this depressing fact together with a highly networked communications infrastructure, and you can see there's a big economic incentive to talk shit about others. The US has an entire media sector built around the opinion columnists and radio/TV hosts whose whole brand is aggressive belittlement of others, or bullying as entertainment.
  • Jochim 4y ago
    It's disingenuous because it entirely misrepresents what happened.
• o_1 4y ago
  This isn't twitter singling out a user for their opinions/posts isn't the discourse nature of HN. Please keep this type of behavior away from here.
  • jjulius 4y ago
    In the context of the user making a very inaccurate comment about the free speech rights of someone running one of the largest conspiracy theory websites, it is worth highlighting their own strong connections to an organization very similar in intent/spirit to InfoWars. I provided no direct link to any personal accounts, did not doxx OP, and will defer to dang on this one.
    • cycomanic 4y ago
      The irony is that the user would likely complain loudly about you posting this and ask moderators to remove the post. That's how far their defence of free speech goes.