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Is it not problematic that the government is bringing up specific things they’d like censored?

• immibis 1y ago
  As long as it stays to the level of "Hey, doesn't this violate your rules?" I think the government has the same right to press the report button, or even to write an email equivalent to pressing report a bunch of times, as anyone else does. I'm not aware that a Democrat government arrested anyone for not complying with these emails.
  • jameslk 1y ago
    Are you suggesting it's okay for the government to push for censoring specific content only when it also happens to break the rules of a site? How is the flag button equivalent to the White House writing emails to Twitter and Meta? It seems the latter would have a lot more priority than my personal measly attempts at pressing the flag button on something I didn't like
    • amanaplanacanal 1y ago
      Yeah it certainly looked bad. And it gave cover for the new administration to just pretend the first amendment doesn't exist.
    • immibis 1y ago
      I'm just as entitled as Joe Biden to write an email to Elon saying he should ban the following rule-breaking posts. I've written emails to HN moderators like that before.