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'Hide It Hillary' mobile game banned by Apple, title like 'Punch Trump' approved

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Re: 'Hide It Hillary' mobile game banned by Apple, title like 'Punch Trump' approved

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Post by dogma1138 »

MaysonL wrote: post #39
existencebox wrote: post #8

I'm quite curious about this article, less about the words, more about how it's being received. It has 43 upvotes in 41 minutes. For a rather bland subject, that's not half bad (point wise), potentially motivated by the political conflict involved, but that happens. However, in the time I've queued it in my "morning reading", I've refreshed it quite a few times and watched it flag, unflag, flag, unflag at least 5-6 r…

I do find it interesting that all of the instances of "Hillary", "Hillary Clinton", or "Mrs. Clinton" are hyperlinks to the WaPo Hillary Clinton topic page, while none of the Trump references are links…

This looks more like an oddity of their CMS, as contextual content tagging is usually automated. That said considering just how loosely trump throws the word "lawsuit" around and actually acts upon it, it wouldn't surprise me if WaPo and some other media outlets disabled auto-tagging on his name.

Re: 'Hide It Hillary' mobile game banned by Apple, title like 'Punch Trump' approved

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Post by asdffderty »

waterphone wrote: post #36
TheLarch wrote: post #19

"In 2002, at an event held to celebrate the Times's 20th anniversary, Moon said: 'The Washington Times is responsible to let the American people know about God' and 'The Washington Times will become the instrument in spreading the truth about God to the world.'" [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Times ]

The Washington Times is indeed not at all a trustworthy news outlet. It is incredibly politically biased, to the point of overt absurdity. Due to the name, however, some continue to confuse it with the Washington Post and assume it has legitimate content.

And Washington Post is not incredibly biased? It's owned by Bezos, it's pretty much as antip-Trump as anything can be.

Re: 'Hide It Hillary' mobile game banned by Apple, title like 'Punch Trump' approved

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Post by dawnerd »

the8472 wrote: post #43
dawnerd wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly don't think they should allow apps like hide Hillary or punch trump. They're low value and only promote hate towards the person.

Why should they police what users can do with their devices at all? Providing strong guidance for the purpose of security seems reasonable considering that not everyone is computer-literate. Anything else, that is policing content, seems self-serving (upholding brand image or whatever), dictatorial (imposing moral values, such as nudity == evil) and user-hostile.

Oh completely agree. But since they've built this walled garden of apps it just makes sense for them to be consistent.

Re: 'Hide It Hillary' mobile game banned by Apple, title like 'Punch Trump' approved

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Post by [deleted] »

dawnerd wrote: post #63
the8472 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why should they police what users can do with their devices at all? Providing strong guidance for the purpose of security seems reasonable considering that not everyone is computer-literate. Anything else, that is policing content, seems self-serving (upholding brand image or whatever), dictatorial (imposing moral values, such as nudity == evil) and user-hostile.

Oh completely agree. But since they've built this walled garden of apps it just makes sense for them to be consistent.

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Re: 'Hide It Hillary' mobile game banned by Apple, title like 'Punch Trump' approved

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Post by dang »

koolba wrote: post #46
douche wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably the "vouch" feature working. Countdown on it being flagged down again: 1, 2, 3...

Where does the vouch link show up? I don't recall ever seeing one.

You have to click on the comment's timestamp to go to its page. Then (assuming the comment is [dead]) you'll see a 'vouch' link at the top. That's the same place where the 'flag' links for comments appear. If the comment isn't [dead], there's no 'vouch' link, because the reason to vouch for comments is to resurrect them from [dead].

Re: 'Hide It Hillary' mobile game banned by Apple, title like 'Punch Trump' approved

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Post by fckyrdumb »

sctb wrote: post #64
fckyrdumb wrote: post #2

Political corruption is the status quo, sadly few acknowledge the reality.

Please stop. You've been commenting primarily for generic ideological purposes, and this isn't a legitimate use of this site.

Typical, HN censors views it doesn't agree with.

Re: 'Hide It Hillary' mobile game banned by Apple, title like 'Punch Trump' approved

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Post by fckyrdumb »

sctb wrote: post #64
fckyrdumb wrote: post #2

Political corruption is the status quo, sadly few acknowledge the reality.

Please stop. You've been commenting primarily for generic ideological purposes, and this isn't a legitimate use of this site.

I'd like to also add that it is incredibly chilling to free speech for a moderator to essentially tell me my opinion is unwelcomed here.

Whether you believe it or not you become another tool of government oppression.

Re: 'Hide It Hillary' mobile game banned by Apple, title like 'Punch Trump' approved

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Post by sctb »

fckyrdumb wrote: post #69
sctb wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please stop. You've been commenting primarily for generic ideological purposes, and this isn't a legitimate use of this site.

I'd like to also add that it is incredibly chilling to free speech for a moderator to essentially tell me my opinion is unwelcomed here. Whether you believe it or not you become another tool of government oppression.

Regardless of whether you're expressing a pro or anti-government opinion, on Hacker News comments need to be civil and substantive—you have to actually say something meaningful with basis in reality. It's the genericness that's at issue here because it poisons the spirit of intellectual curiosity that is the basis for this site. We're all here to learn something, so we ask that comments say something.
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