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This website has a problem with criticism of certain subjects being flagged down to oblivion. Any criticism against Musk's endeavours, Apartheid Israel, and som
by botanical 3y ago
This website has a problem with criticism of certain subjects being flagged down to oblivion. Any criticism against Musk's endeavours, Apartheid Israel, and sometimes even environmental topics like global warming gets flagged, so that discussion of the topic is minimised. It's an affront to the supposed values of the civilised Western world.
- kcplate 3y agoIt’s not just in a single ideological direction. Any post or comment even mildly considered controversial or verboten to discuss by a specific side gets it on here. I tend to still see them all because I read HN with a RSS feed reader and don’t see the flagged indicator until after I open the story. Generally I know either from the link url, or the topic that when I open the story the story will be flagged, or will have a # of comments flagged. It’s really not disappointing to see supposedly smart people do this.
- AnimalMuppet 3y ago> It's an affront to the supposed values of the civilised Western world. HN is not intended to be the discussion site for every topic. It deliberately tries to avoid topics that are going to produce more flame than light. The values of western civilization do not depend on whether HN allows discussion of every topic. There are plenty of other places for those discussions to happen, free and unhindered by HN's site guidelines.
- botanical 3y agoIt's obvious I meant the people on the website, not HN itself.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoBut it's still the same answer. The people on this website may discuss politics, may even do flamewars, but not here. And there's nothing wrong with that. There's no disgrace to western civilization in being a fully-involved citizen, but not taking all of your partisan politics into a mostly-technical forum.