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>We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle and ignoring our request to stop. Stop making things up. What ideological battle? Why aren't you banning th…

> That's a slippery slope argument that I personally don't believe. It's not a matter of belief. It's happened time and time again. One prominent example is hitler and nazi germany…

> This is an extremely frightening statement to me. It truly is to me as well. It's something you expect nazis to say. Imagine if the comment was "The idea that I'm seeing any of t…

Absolutely. How is this any different than germans throwing chinese tourists in jail for making nazi salutes? Or saudis throwing atheists in jail because they offended their faith.…

> Hint: Neo Nazis wish to return to the good old days of 1939 or so where Jews and people of color are either dead, outcast, deported, enslaved or stuck in camps while white men ru…

Germany arrested chinese tourists for making nazi salute. Should we do something about germany too? Do chinese and germans deserve free speech too or just thais? Edit: @0xfeba > Th…

This is why I despise censorship and control. Even against people like daily stormers and neo-nazis. Chinese tourists gets arrested for making silly nazi salutes. Everyone celebrat…

We are going to have to have regulation to reign in these companies. FB, GOOG, MSFT, etc all serve billions of people. FB's network has a 1 people more than china. The pro-censorsh…

Everything you wrote is why we have freedom of speech protection. > But more abstractly and insidiously, the value has mutated to give license to liars and manipulators of all kind…

> and to be an unwilling vehicle for the Neo Nazi movement is something that no company should want to aspire to. Does that also apply to pornography? What about atheism? What abou…

As they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I can't believe this is what social media and the tech industry has become. And I can't believe there are people actual…

> That said, I think crossing this content line for an infrastructure company is a big deal, and I hope it's not repeated. It's an incredibly terrible move. Such an arbitrary and b…

So-called judges once ruled that blacks were property rather than human. We have a long history of "so-called judged". Go read about what lincoln felt about judges.

His daughter is jewish and his son in law is jewish, so that must mean he hitler.

Wasn't there a study that said CEOs tend to be overrepresented in the sociopathetic personality? CEOs of large corporations have no problem doing business with china or israel or r…

Is there a reason for the love that some on HN have for Matt Levine? Seems like every finance related topic brings up matt levine. > Matt Levine says it best: Is that the really be…

It is insane that we are allowing GoDaddy, Google and tech companies to be arbiters of free speech. As a kid, I used to associate google, yahoo and the whole of internet as a basti…

Isn't a ycombinator blog dedicated solely for women sexist. Isn't "Ask a Female Engineer" sexist? If ycombinator only had "Ask a Male Engineer" wouldn't they be attacked for it?

> There is real harm done if women who work at a company don't feel they are welcome there. Using that logic, should every male feel unwelcomed because of the pro-female activity a…

> Here's the thing: for men being decent requires effort Wow. That's blatant sexist bigotry. Can you imagine if someone said the same thing about women and what the reaction on HN …

My uncle was diagnosed with cancer last july and died 3 months later. Left behind a wife and two kids. The holidays was rather depressing last year. He was an athlete who ran in ma…

> I'm still surprised more companies aren't doing it. Almost every major company has been doing it for many years. Especially large companies with tons of cash overseas. Instead of…

Why is it that every article about china reads like a propaganda piece. "World domination"? Was our investment in AI about "world domination" also? It is strange how propaganda spi…

> I believe this program is a good complementary source of knowledge to become a better software developer. That's something you could learn on your own. But your knowledge of "tec…

> Unfortunately, this is a pretty standard fluff piece with not much information. Imagine if you had to write articles everyday to earn your paycheck. Whether it is bloomberg or da…