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Right but the link itself isn’t critical of HN or anything, just some of the comments turned out not to be super on board with the petition.

• theGnuMe 4y ago
  My speech gets rate limited under the guise of "posting too fast" here from time to time. For YC that and flagging are a feature being used to control the narrative and as a user it sucks because you can't in general have a conversation about anything remotely confrontational. Same thing happens at Twitter despite the new boss. Rules more thee but not for me. So I agree with you in general. But in my opinion YC doesn't want the petition on the front page probably because they don't want to have to explain the comments to Congress or the press. Imagine asking for a bailout and having the comments here read out loud in a hearing. It's just not a good look. But you know what else isn't a good look? That this post was flagged, edited and restricted.
  • smcl 4y ago
    > But in my opinion YC doesn't want the petition on the front page probably because they don't want to have to explain the comments to Congress In my opinion they probably didn't want it on the front page with that title ("Y Combinator is asking for a bailout") because it looked desperate. I don't think that's why it disappeared though. Apparently some others didn't want it on the front page with the revised title ("Urgent: Sign the petition now") because they didn't like the idea that YC would get some special treatment (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35115948 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35115948). Weird story altogether, and some people who would actually otherwise be aligned ended up doing a bit of friendly fire.