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Re: I don’t need The Onion, I have China Daily

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Post by pas » Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 7:53 PM UTC

kristofferR wrote: post #22

rjzzleep wrote: post #18

Maybe you ought to read CNN for a more nuanced view on this. People claiming everyone is against this, ought to remember that it fits with long term policies of the current government in Hong Kong. Someone must have elected them. > Seen in light of this pattern of conduct by Hong Kong's government, the extradition bill is nothing new. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/11/opinions/hong-kong-protes...

> Someone must have elected them. Beijing did. Hong-Kong isn't a democracy.

Alas that seems a very low bar nowadays.

Re: I don’t need The Onion, I have China Daily

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Post by radcon » Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 8:18 PM UTC

VanPossum wrote: post #32

Since we're on the topic of underhanded media manipulation, I'll just leave this here: I saw this entry skyrocket its way to position #2 on the front page, and within minutes, despite have 130+ upvotes and 30+ comments within 1 hour it is now suddenly 11 pages down, at position 340 (as of this post). As you can see this submission does not have any remark from mods and is not marked "[Flagged]" or anything...

HN is no different from every other internet forum: Heavily moderated with very little transparency -- the perfect recipe for filter bubbles and groupthink.

The moderators can even apply permanent penalties to individual users (your comments will sink to the bottom where few will see them) without notice or justification. It's sort of like a shadow-ban but your comments are still visible.

Re: I don’t need The Onion, I have China Daily

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Post by mmmad123 » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 3:10 AM UTC

I know the government did many shit things. But, for this Hong Kong protest, can anyone tell me why they want to protest? Is the government doing the right on "controversial" extradition?