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PG has straight up admitted that there is classification of articles (automated or manual) and that penalties are applied to certain classifications, such as "p
by Crito 13y ago
PG has straight up admitted that there is classification of articles (automated or manual) and that penalties are applied to certain classifications, such as "political". There is no real denial.
> "So already for the past week TSA stories have had an automatic penalty applied. Or more precisly, they've been autotagged as being political, which entails a penalty."
> "When anything gets over a certain number of flags, it shows up on a list that admins see. They decide either to kill it, mark it as political or whatever, or do nothing."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934950
- Phlarp 13y agoJust because the mechanism for censorship is well meaning, excellently engineered and transparently implemented does not change the end effect.
- Crito 13y agoI'm not saying it's a good thing (for that matter, I'm not saying that it's bad either). I'm just pointing out that HN has been open that this is going on; it's not something that is denied or excused.