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"Please avoid political speech" is often just shorthand for "you are not allowed to talk about how the current rules just so happen to be my rules".
by actionfromafar 1y ago
"Please avoid political speech" is often just shorthand for "you are not allowed to talk about how the current rules just so happen to be my rules".
- foogazi 1y agoFlagged!
- sethammons 1y agoAnd this post was flagged and is no longer on hn front page
- tempodox 1y agoIt is in https://news.ycombinator.com/active https://news.ycombinator.com/active.
- MSFT_Edging 1y agoIt's easy to forget the Hacker website is actually just a VC discussion board and the "avoid politics" is simply "avoid talking about our future business lines"
- actionfromafar 1y agoHaha, yes. I meant more in general discourse though. Maybe HN should shift to "how to prosper in a dictatorship". :)