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Annnd it's flagged. The digital brownshirts have beaten undesired speech into submission once again.
by saubeidl 1y ago
Annnd it's flagged. The digital brownshirts have beaten undesired speech into submission once again.
- MisterTea 1y agoI am of the opinion that the "No politics" rule of HN is just a thin veil attempting to shield the tech industry from criticism for enabling these buffoons.
- stego-tech 1y agoIt really is. Too much of our industry operates on some perverse savior complex where they believe themselves the only capable humans on the planet and everyone else to be inferior in some way (often intellectually, but there’s plenty of -isms too). These topics are incredibly salient to discuss if we’re going to improve our industry and society. Everything is political, and should be discussed in the context of technology here - which this article is highly relevant for.
- weakfish 1y agoAbsolutely. It’s even more frustrating that I tried to post this on a few notable subreddits and got auto-flagged for not complying with domain allowlists or other meaningless rules.
- saubeidl 1y agoThe "unpolitical" is an implicit endorsement of the status quo. Enforcing it as a rule is an explicit enablement of the status quo.
- BergAndCo 1y agoNot every site has to be another Reddit
- weakfish 1y agoWhat? Discussing thought provoking news in the political world? No, flagging this thread, which is thought provoking is just insulating those who can afford to ignore it. If HN is about intellectual curiosity, the heated disagreement in this comment section should be proof of how stimulating this topic is. But we’d rather stick our heads in the sand rather than confront what inconveniences us.