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This is ironic. I thought there was a big push from the right for less censorship and less moderation in social media. Now we’re flagging posts because the comm
by fourside 2y ago
This is ironic. I thought there was a big push from the right for less censorship and less moderation in social media. Now we’re flagging posts because the comment section may get heated.
- leereeves 2y ago> the comment section may get heated Have you read this discussion? It was already heated, although the comments posted recently have been better. Before greggyb asked why it was flagged, the top comments were about "the dumbest bully from their grade school" and "team grade school bullies". Does that not sound like flag-worthy discussion to you? Name calling like that buries legitimate discussion, like the claim that she was not in fact eligible for a TN visa because she "worked for" a startup she co-founded (Holy! Water). "NAFTA specifically prohibits self-employment for TN visa holders. This restriction poses challenges for entrepreneurs who wish to start a business in the United States." https://www.visapro.com/resources/article/tn-visa-to-green-card/ https://www.visapro.com/resources/article/tn-visa-to-green-c...
- frob 2y agoWhen the people in charge are acting like the dumbest bully from my grade school, then yes, it does sound like valid critism and a legitimate point of discussion.
- wasabi991011 2y agoThat seems like a reason to flag the comments, not the article.
- kragen 2y agoThis has been HN policy since the beginning, and while HN is usually still quite unpleasant, policies like this one are largely responsible for preventing it from being worse. There are social contexts where discussions of topics like US immigration policy can do good rather than harm, but HN is not one of them.
- ok_dad 2y agoAre you kidding? There are so many VCs here who have the resources to push for fair treatment of immigrants and foreign visitors! HN is the perfect place to discuss this.
- kragen 2y agoI am not kidding. The problem is that the discussion collapses into an unpersuasive and uninformative partisan flamewar, so it does not improve the choices that those VCs will make. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43413819 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43413819 for a more in-depth discussion.
- ok_dad 2y agoSometimes things get messy discussing important topics, we should err on the side of sunshine rather than darkness for these discussions. HN has a lot of powerful and wealthy people who have a responsibility to protect the system they relied on to become rich and powerful, but instead these people ignore the discussion because it doesn’t mesh with their ideas that America is the greatest. See my connect from a few comments ago where I mention how interesting it is we can discuss authoritarian slides everywhere else except when it happens in America. It’s almost a conspiracy, IMO. Also, I can understand demonizing the current admin, they’re flaunting the most important laws that protect us, and for some here the USA is poised to upend their lives or worse. In any case, this discussion isn’t interesting, and constant complaints of bad behavior are stifling the actual discussion more than those flagged, dead comments that started shit.
- neycoda 2y agoIt's amazing how many people don't know how hypocritical and self-serving each side is when it comes to speech and censorship.
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- 93po 2y agothis sort of comment is exactly why i flag this sort of content, to put it kindly, you're sort of missing the point and using a strawman argument