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Meanwhile, this censored post: How strange they focus on Russia or China, rather than the censorship and propaganda being done by the US, given they are a US un

Meanwhile, this censored post: How strange they focus on Russia or China, rather than the censorship and propaganda being done by the US, given they are a US university. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39121693 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39121693 HN is ridiculous sometimes.

pixl97 3y ago
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- Vicinity9635 3y ago
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- ajsnigrutin 3y ago
  But it's not. Why should you care what censorship is done in some other country? Shouldn't you care about your own? I don't care what Putin/Xi/... censors, but I care strongly about what our "garden" of europe, the bastion of freedom of EU censors. Or my own small country... the whole 'rest of the world' can access something, but I have to set up a complete DNS setup to avoid local ones (luckily the bans are DNS based for now).
  - pixl97 3y ago
    >Why should you care what censorship is done in some other country Because corporations cross national lines. Just ask Apple and Jon Stewart about this. What China censors directly affects what media is produced in the US.
    - ajsnigrutin 3y ago
      Well sure, but again, that's your (i'm guessing you're american) companies doing the censorship. And you're talking about entertainment, while most people want other information (mostly "news") uncensored. With access to only government-approved and censored media, then iraq has weapons of mass destruction, putin has only two days of missles left,... since mid-2022, jeffery eppstein killed himself, and only cnn can legally read hillarys emails on wikileaks, etc.
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- dang 3y ago
  Please don't do this here. It's against the site guidelines, which include: "Omit internet tropes." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
archagon 3y ago
“Censored”? It’s still visible, and also, maybe most people just think it’s a silly assertion.
- enterprise_cog 3y ago
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  - archagon 3y ago
    If it was flagged within 5 minutes of you posting it, that means a ton of people found it highly disagreeable within a very short period of time. I've posted unpopular comments before, and the threshold for actually getting a comment removed is (IMO) quite high.
- Vicinity9635 3y ago
  >maybe most people just think it’s a silly assertion. Those people are somewhere between naive and shockingly ignorant: https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/new-report-reveals-cisa-tried-cover-censorship-practices https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/new-report-...
  - archagon 3y ago
    As someone born in Russia, I find the comparison between the "censorship" described here, and the totalitarian censorship wrought by Russia and China, to be downright offensive. Nobody gets black-bagged in the middle of the night for talking smack about the ruling powers in the US. The fact that I hear constant whining about "censorship" by the very people being "censored" on mainstream social media just points to how little of it there actually is.

pixl97 3y ago

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Vicinity9635 3y ago
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ajsnigrutin 3y ago
But it's not. Why should you care what censorship is done in some other country? Shouldn't you care about your own? I don't care what Putin/Xi/... censors, but I care strongly about what our "garden" of europe, the bastion of freedom of EU censors. Or my own small country... the whole 'rest of the world' can access something, but I have to set up a complete DNS setup to avoid local ones (luckily the bans are DNS based for now).
- pixl97 3y ago
  >Why should you care what censorship is done in some other country Because corporations cross national lines. Just ask Apple and Jon Stewart about this. What China censors directly affects what media is produced in the US.
  - ajsnigrutin 3y ago
    Well sure, but again, that's your (i'm guessing you're american) companies doing the censorship. And you're talking about entertainment, while most people want other information (mostly "news") uncensored. With access to only government-approved and censored media, then iraq has weapons of mass destruction, putin has only two days of missles left,... since mid-2022, jeffery eppstein killed himself, and only cnn can legally read hillarys emails on wikileaks, etc.
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dang 3y ago
Please don't do this here. It's against the site guidelines, which include: "Omit internet tropes." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

archagon 3y ago

“Censored”? It’s still visible, and also, maybe most people just think it’s a silly assertion.

enterprise_cog 3y ago
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- archagon 3y ago
  If it was flagged within 5 minutes of you posting it, that means a ton of people found it highly disagreeable within a very short period of time. I've posted unpopular comments before, and the threshold for actually getting a comment removed is (IMO) quite high.
Vicinity9635 3y ago
>maybe most people just think it’s a silly assertion. Those people are somewhere between naive and shockingly ignorant: https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/new-report-reveals-cisa-tried-cover-censorship-practices https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/new-report-...
- archagon 3y ago
  As someone born in Russia, I find the comparison between the "censorship" described here, and the totalitarian censorship wrought by Russia and China, to be downright offensive. Nobody gets black-bagged in the middle of the night for talking smack about the ruling powers in the US. The fact that I hear constant whining about "censorship" by the very people being "censored" on mainstream social media just points to how little of it there actually is.