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Pretty sick of anything seemingly critical of the current administration getting flagged here. The right loves to cry about censorship, but the censorship is co
by pogue 9mo ago
Pretty sick of anything seemingly critical of the current administration getting flagged here. The right loves to cry about censorship, but the censorship is coming from inside the house.
- sheikhnbake 9mo agoFascists are defined by their constant paradox of claiming to be the strongest while always playing* the victim of anything and everything.
- antisthenes 9mo agoPolitics aside, there's no paradox here. Unless you assume strength and victimhood are somehow on a supply/demand type of curve, which would be logically bonkers.
- sheikhnbake 9mo agoMAGA and their ilk love to claim a warrior/strong man identity while simultaneously whining about censorship and persecution and accusing their political opponents of being overly sensitive snowflakes. This is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation, ergo, paradoxical.
- difosfor 9mo agoI wish there was an unflag vote option
- metadope 9mo agoAnything critical of the administration is going to be, by definition, political. There is a large contingent within HN who never want any political discussion. This appears to be an ongoing dynamic tension. The flagging might not be from the right. Just same old same old HN foosball.
- mingus88 9mo agoBollocks. Politics is endemic to tech. It’s impossible to discuss tech without politics. What some folk want to squash is very particular politics which they don’t want to confront. It violates everything it means to be a hacker in the true sense of the word but I have realized a long time ago that these types of people wear the badge of hacker for their ego only
- iamnothere 9mo agoFor me personally, I only want to see politics that are directly tech-adjacent here. I have many other channels for political news that have a much better signal-to-noise ratio. Diluting the tech focus here with average mainstream politics attracts the wrong crowd and adds little of value.
- LexiMax 9mo ago> Diluting the tech focus here with average mainstream politics attracts the wrong crowd and adds little of value. Flagged stories are some of the most active stories on HN. If the goal is to act as a filter on the kinds of acceptable topics to discuss or the kinds of people to attract to HN, it's a failed one, because the "wrong crowd" is still being attracted and commenting on those stories. If anything, I see far and away the most amount of bad faith flagging/downvoting and throwaways on those threads. Are people getting their flagging privileges taken away? Are the throwaway's main accounts being banned? Who knows...
- iamnothere 9mo agoThe wrong crowd includes organized astroturf groups, bots, trolls, and political junkies who all probably have feeds set up looking for those posts. Can’t escape it anywhere on the internet where general political posts are allowed. At least the flagging keeps the noise off the front page and discourages an excessive number of general political/news posts.