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I clicked flag. It's not suppression. Actually your knee-jerk "suppression" claim is pointing in the direction of why I clicked flag. It's because people are u
by notavalleyman 3y ago
I clicked flag. It's not suppression. Actually your knee-jerk "suppression" claim is pointing in the direction of why I clicked flag.
It's because people are unable to handle these topics without delving into conspiracy theories.
You had two paths you could have gone down.
Path one - it's active suppression, which means mens rea, which means someone is out there silencing me, which means a conspiracy is active, to shut down criticism of Israel. Which means the Elders of Zion are at it again.
Path two - hn users have clicked flag, so it's flagged
Why did you choose path one? What about this topic is breaking peoples' brains so badly? That's why I clicked it. I don't want hn users to verbalise their anti-jewish theories.
- tremon 3y agoIt's because people are unable to handle these topics without delving into conspiracy theories. That's not a reason to flag a submission, that's a reason not to read the discussion.
- notavalleyman 3y agoAn article whose follow-on discussion is mostly offtopic conspiracy theories (which they were) ought not to be here, imo, but maybe I'm wrong on the guideline etiquette
- rewmie 3y ago[flagged]
- leereeves 3y agoHow is any of this a conspiracy theory? The campaign to silence criticism of Israel is well documented, even here on HN. "Israeli gov-led Zoom calls, WhatsApp chat logs, and other docs provide a window into the massive effort to shape online discourse and silence pro-Palestinian voices." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38572675 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38572675
- rendall 3y ago100%. Contentious political discussion is supposed to be something we avoid on HN.
- just4thought 3y agodo emacs vs vim uncontentiously.
- rendall 3y agoOr Tabs versus Spaces.
- catlover76 3y ago> Path one - it's active suppression, which means mens rea, which means someone is out there silencing me, which means a conspiracy is active, to shut down criticism of Israel. Which means the Elders of Zion are at it again. What a load of bullshit. "Anyone who thinks users are flagging this submission in deliberate bad faith must also believe xyz conspiracy theory"
- notavalleyman 3y agoThe user I was replying to wrote > This kind of discussion is suppressed on HN Typically people wouldn't use "suppressed" to mean: "there are disconnected users of this website who are, without coordination, independently flagging this submission in deliberate bad faith". Typically "suppression" would refer to a coordinated deliberate act. So I was simply replying to the most common interpretation of the user's words. I understood them to be saying that a deliberate (and not accidental) attempt is being made to prevent "this kind of discussion" from happening.
- mcpackieh 3y agoYou literally suppressed the discussion.
- shapenamer 3y ago"I deliberately suppressed this discussion and any claims of the discussion being suppressed are the reason I suppressed it and are also conspiracy theories and not real, even though I did suppress it." ya uh... ok