Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views • Hacker News Board

Re: Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views

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Post by pmarreck » Sun, Jul 01, 2018, 1:10 AM UTC

sheepmullet wrote: post #281

pmarreck wrote: post #225

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Fair enough because I agree, nevertheless it’s a stretch to accuse The Social-Network Powers That Be of essentially a left-wing conspiracy

The bias makes sense and I wouldn't call it a conspiracy theory. Where are the censors hired? Californians have a different idea about hate speech than people from Alabama who have a different view of hate speech than someone from Bangalore. So if you hire your censors from California you are going to see right wing rogue ideas considered hate speech.

I know tastes differ across space, but there must be some minimum standard that would satisfy almost everyone

Re: Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views

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Post by pmarreck » Sun, Jul 01, 2018, 1:12 AM UTC

prolikewhoa wrote: post #315

pmarreck wrote: post #300

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Is censorship of argumentum-ad-nauseam bullshit really censorship, though?

Where is the "argumentum-ad-nauseam bullshit"? I'm didn't post this to argue about politics or what your political beliefs are, just that they do in fact, censor.

The thing about Hillary’s emails was COMPLETELY INFLATED by her opposition, since she was not the first person by a long shot to use a private email server. Inflation = distortion = bullshit.

Re: Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views

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Post by dang » Sun, Jul 01, 2018, 4:39 AM UTC

kebman wrote: post #326

jtbayly wrote: post #44

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Making Nazis out to be just a more extreme form of the Republican viewpoint is hardly a good way to engage in discussion about a politically sensitive topic.

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Please don't do this here.

Re: Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views

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Post by dang » Sun, Jul 01, 2018, 4:46 AM UTC

ceejayoz wrote: post #241

Mikhail_Edoshin wrote: post #150

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I'd say that to be offended by something you have to believe that things ought not to be that way and the fact that they are can only be a personal attack on you carried out by some evil forces. This is not too rational, so yes, most conservatives do not get offended. (Another reason could be that idea of loving thy neighbor as he is, not as you believe he should be.)

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Please keep this sort of political flamewar off HN, regardless of how annoying another comment is.

Re: Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views

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Post by dang » Sun, Jul 01, 2018, 4:47 AM UTC

Mikhail_Edoshin wrote: post #217

nascar_is_bad wrote: post #206

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All I need to know :) thanks. Execute the gays amirite?

You're not much interested in real people, are you? :)

Could you please not do flamewars on HN? That commenter was way out of line to attack you based on nationality, and we've banned their account for trolling. But you also posted provocations in this thread, and we need people not to do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views

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Post by dang » Sun, Jul 01, 2018, 4:48 AM UTC

nascar_is_bad wrote: post #206

Mikhail_Edoshin wrote: post #161

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Yep.

All I need to know :) thanks. Execute the gays amirite?

We've banned this account for egregiously violating the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views

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Post by dang » Sun, Jul 01, 2018, 4:50 AM UTC

nascar_is_bad wrote: post #141

Mikhail_Edoshin wrote: post #138

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Ah, that famous empathy that only left-wing people seem to have :)

https://stackoverflow.com/users/478521/mikhail-edoshin From Russia eh?

All: attacking another user based on their nationality is totally not ok here, and we ban accounts that do it. We've banned this one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views

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Post by dang » Sun, Jul 01, 2018, 4:53 AM UTC

sensor_ship wrote: post #2

I mean, my views get censored here on HN all the time...

We don't "censor views". We do ban accounts that break the site guidelines, and if it's a serial troll, we usually don't bother to say so.

Re: Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views

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Post by dang » Sun, Jul 01, 2018, 6:23 AM UTC

throwawayjava wrote: post #373

AmericanChopper wrote: post #360

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Please don't do political flamewars on HN. That's just what we don't want here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views

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Post by dang » Sun, Jul 01, 2018, 6:23 AM UTC

AmericanChopper wrote: post #381

throwawayjava wrote: post #368

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I think you’ll find that most conservatives actually just want the NFL to enforce their rules, which already prohibit political speech on the pitch. Something the NFL has enforced in the past against conservative political expression. So where do you think this no platforming of liberals is taking place? It’s not happening in the media. It’s not happening on social media. It’s not happening on the campus. It’s not ha…

No political flamewars on HN, please.

Edit: it looks like you've been using HN primarily for political or ideological battle. The site guidelines explicitly ask you not to do that, and point out that we ban accounts that do. We have to, because flamewars consume everything if you let them. Please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use the site as intended from now on.