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I wonder why the other comment on here, that talked about the political censorship in ChatGPT about Israel, got deleted?

• dang 5mo ago
  It wasn't about Israel, and it didn't get deleted. It got flagkilled for obviously breaking the site guidelines. Killed posts remain visible to users who have 'showdead' turned on in their profile. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
  • ebbi 5mo ago
    It was about Israel, unless you're referring to another comment that was deleted.
    • dang 5mo ago
      I'm talking about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188180 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188180.
      • ebbi 5mo ago
        All I see is >[stub for offtopicness] But it was very much on topic.
        • ViktorRay 5mo ago
          If you go to your profile in the top right and toggle “Show Dead”, you will be able to see those moderated comments. Once you do that, you can see the comment in the link that dang posted. Anyway it’s good that comment was moderated. The commentator didn’t say anything about Israel. He was clearly being hostile towards Jewish people in a “subtle” way that very clearly isn’t really subtle to anyone.
          • ebbi 5mo ago
            [flagged]
            • lyu07282 5mo ago
              Who is they? There are plenty of anti-zionist jews, you are making the argument "they" want you to make don't be fooled man
    • deleted 5mo ago
      [deleted]
  • ebbi 5mo ago
    Why are you deleting comments from people asking you about actions you're taking? Ironic, given the topic of this post....
    • dang 5mo ago
      I have done no such thing. We only ever delete comments outright when the author asks us to (and even then, not always). Otherwise the most we ever do is kill a comment, and such comments remain visible to anyone who wants to turn on the profile setting I just mentioned.
  • nohell 5mo ago
    It absolutely was about Israel. Stop lying.
    • throwawaypath 5mo ago
      Your antisemitism is showing. The comment doesn't mention Israel whatsoever.
      • nohell 5mo ago
        [flagged]
        • throwawaypath 5mo ago
          >I make fun of all races, religions, and ethnicities equally. No you don't.
    • dang 5mo ago
      If you meant Israel you would have said Israel. Instead you said "God's chosen people" which was a (presumably sarcastic, and certainly flamebaity) reference to Jews. Principled criticism of Israel is fine. There have been a great many such posts on HN. Religious and/or ethnic flamebait is not fine. This is not a difficult distinction, and anyone who is posting in good faith should have no difficulty making it. Your comment broke the site guidelines in other ways as well.
      • ebbi 5mo ago
        Yet you leave blatantly Islamophobic comments in another thread untouched. Nice work.
        • dang 5mo ago
          We moderate anti-Islamic flamewar posts exactly as we do other religious flamewar posts. I dug up a few examples for you below. There are others, but this should be more than enough to persuade any fair-minded reader: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40747009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40747009 (June 2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40746973 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40746973 (June 2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38623290 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38623290 (Dec 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27534558 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27534558 (June 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25319171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25319171 (Dec 2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18080981 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18080981 (Sept 2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14116279 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14116279 (April 2017) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13647198 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13647198 (Feb 2017) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13286221 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13286221 (Dec 2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11669863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11669863 (May 2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11518006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11518006 (April 2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11340026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11340026 (March 2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10897270 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10897270 (Jan 2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10590568 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10590568 (Nov 2015) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10564079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10564079 (Nov 2015) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9992931 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9992931 (Aug 2015) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8008392 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8008392 (July 2014) As you can see, these go back over a decade and in fact for as long as I've been doing this job. The mistake in your comment is the assumption that we see everything that gets posted to HN. We don't come close—there is far too much for that to be possible. I'd be surprised if mods see even 10% of what gets posted to HN. Since we can't moderate what we don't see, we rely on users to bring egregious posts to our attention. If you'd like to be helpful in the future, you'd be welcome to send us links so we can take a look. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=likeliest%20explanation%20by%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
  • rrhjm53270 5mo ago
    Ironic
    • dang 5mo ago
      I'm guessing that you mean this is political censorship? If that is what you mean, then I wonder what political position you think has been censored in this case.
• Creamsicle47 5mo ago
  Take a guess
  • ebbi 5mo ago
    "What political censorship looks like inside HN" lol