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So your solution is to ban everyone who disagrees with you? In fact, your solution is to ask HN to take an explicitly political position of no relevance to its
by Veen 3y ago
So your solution is to ban everyone who disagrees with you? In fact, your solution is to ask HN to take an explicitly political position of no relevance to its intended purpose, and then ban everyone who objects to that?
- ubermonkey 3y agoTolerating overt bigotry is absolutely something HN should NOT do. That's not politics. That's being a decent human.
- bitwize 3y ago[flagged]
- Veen 3y ago[flagged]
- dang 3y agoWhoa - you can't post like this here, regardless of how wrong some people are or you feel they are. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
- Veen 3y agoTo put it more politely, these people are expressing attitudes that, if they were ever widely put into practice, would destroy the liberal democratic foundations on which our society is built, including the protections that give them the liberty to express such foolish opinions without consequence. That seems insane to me, so I stand by my previous comment: these people are fucking insane.
- dang 3y agoIt would have been fine to post that without the name-calling. Internet denunciation always feels justified, and maybe it sometimes is, but it really dumbs down the threads (e.g. it evokes worse from others), and we have to moderate for the effects of these things. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=troll%20effects%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
- howinteresting 3y agoI don't think that these people should be banned from the clearnet. I do think these people should be banned from Hacker News. There are many people, mostly from marginalized communities, that don't participate on HN due to the presence of overt bigotry here. This is unjust.
- howinteresting 3y agoHN should start by aggressively banning clear bigotry before we start getting into more complex cases. To the extent that that is a political position, yes, HN should take a political position.