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No, HN is not run by a government.
by kgwxd 1y ago
No, HN is not run by a government.
- bigyabai 1y ago*that we know about Can't forget that the CIA ran Star Wars fan-sites, on the internet nobody knows you're a dog.
- toast0 1y agoI don't think government influence/mandate is required to earn the name 'censorship'. Certainly, government censorship is more worrisome than private censorship. I would be upset if a government imposed a list of disallowed topics on a forum such as HN; however, I do not wish to participate on a forum without a list of disallowed topics. That the admins (and the users, through flagging norms) prohibit certain topics is clear, and I think it qualifies as censorship, especially where admins are actively supressing certain topics (which they do).
- kgwxd 1y agothe far more accurate word in this case is "moderation". the choice of "censorship" is always to invoke a sense of abuse of extraordinary power and victimhood. you wanna talk freely about whatever you want, without risk of being kicked out of someone else's house, go to your house. half the things i do here get my account put in timeout, I wouldn't equate it to being arrested for talking.