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It was even here in HN a community of pretty normal people. Remember the discussions of Sweden’s approach to lockdowns? Any mention of it and you were shouted d
by chasd00 2y ago
It was even here in HN a community of pretty normal people. Remember the discussions of Sweden’s approach to lockdowns? Any mention of it and you were shouted down and blood was surely going to run in the streets of Sweden by dawn the next day. I lost a lot of faith in the HN community then.
The pandemic and the compliance and the us vs. them mentality really opened by eyes. It’s how terrible things happen, people will just do what their told by some perceived authority no matter what.
- cempaka 2y agoOne particular big name commenter here was still defending mass firings under the OSHA mandate in late 2022 / early 2023.
- lupusreal 2y agoHN, to it's credit, at least permitted dissent without systematic bans for going against whatever was the officially blessed narrative of the day.
- firesteelrain 2y agoIt does however downvotes start to gray out comments and HN is still prone to brigading.
- 3np 2y agoI don't see how that points to presence of systematic bans.
- firesteelrain 2y agoI didn’t say anything about bans.
- idunnoman1222 2y agoHow would you know that? My account was banned.
- lupusreal 2y agoI dissented regularly and vehemently and was not banned on HN.
- tensor 2y agoPeople disagreeing with you is not censorship.