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Re: Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube

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Post by koheripbal »

ccktlmazeltov wrote: post #830
koheripbal wrote: post #112

I think a more fundamental problem is a single private company having a near-monopoly on various public communication channels, and having financial interests in various global dictatorships. The Founding Fathers could not have predicted this. Google's "We're a private company" get-out-jail-free card cannot continue to apply.

Am I crazy or was there a comment in this thread calling out the moderators of HN and their own censorship? Did it disappear as well?

I don't remember exactly, but originally my comment wasn't top-level. Did the mods do that, or is that automatic with high karma comments or something?

Re: Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube

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Post by dfabulich »

gentleman11 wrote: post #762
three_seagrass wrote: post #633

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the perennial discussion on HN as HN'ers get popularity confused with monopoly. I get the anti-Google sentiment but outside of the Play services agreements that Google got dinged for with Android manufacturers, they're not being anti-competitive. If Google were to block search results to DuckDuckGo for example, that would be monopolistic and warrant antitrust action. As it is now, Google isn't blocking compet…

They do deliberately slow their sites on Firefox, as has been discussed in many past hn articles. YouTube for example. Pardon my lack of references, you should confirm for yourself with a hn search in case I am mistaken

The YouTube example was a bug from 2018. https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/25/17611444/how-to-speed-up-...

It's since been fixed.

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Post by elorant »

dang wrote: post #846
dang wrote: post #833

All: please don't miss that there are multiple pages of comments. Unfortunately the two top subthreads have become so large that they fill out the first page entirely. You have to click 'More' at the bottom to see the rest (there are almost 1000 at this point).

I made this a collapsed stub comment to collect replies, since we don't want to distract the top of the thread too much.

Collapsing comments doesn't seem to work in subsequent pages

Re: Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube

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Post by maest »

acka wrote: post #484
CamelCaseName wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow. No Wikipedia articles on him either, and reports of people getting permanently banned from Wikipedia for trying to create that article, or even mentioning him in another.

There are articles about him on WikiSpooks[0] and Conservapedia[1]. [0] https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Eric_Ciaramella [1] https://www.conservapedia.com/Eric_Ciaramella

Is Conservapedia satire?

> Ciaramella, who has been derided by critics as a beta male, is represented by kiddie-porn lawyer Mark Zaid.

Regardless of political leaning, you can't take anything like this seriously, surely.

Re: Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube

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Post by elefanten »

hujun wrote: post #145

another fact, you know which population uses word "共匪"? people in Taiwan, this is actually very old word dated way back from early 1900s when Kuomintang was still controlling China; they call communist party "共匪", and keep using that term after they got defeated in China civil war, and fled to Taiwan island.

I'm not sure I understand your point. It makes sense that people in Taiwan would use political rhetoric that aligns with their perspective.

The issue is whether societies without political censorship should support their businesses adopting it. Who uses any specific rhetoric (that should be categorically protected) is not salient to the debate.

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Post by dang »

dang wrote: post #833

All: please don't miss that there are multiple pages of comments. Unfortunately the two top subthreads have become so large that they fill out the first page entirely. You have to click 'More' at the bottom to see the rest (there are almost 1000 at this point).

I made this a collapsed stub comment to collect replies, since we don't want to distract the top of the thread too much.

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Post by Veen »

MiSeRyDeee wrote: post #603
Veen wrote: post #531

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It goes beyond private companies. We can't even rely on the WHO to do the right thing when it risks annoying the CCP.

Which is an untrue story that Trump trying to tell

Is it an untrue story told by Trump that the Taiwanese are kept out of the World Health Organization—to the point that their data was ignored in the early days of the pandemic? Is it untrue that they are kept out to appease the CCP?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-52088167

Re: Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube

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Post by dang »

jb775 wrote: post #839
dang wrote: post #846

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I made this a collapsed stub comment to collect replies, since we don't want to distract the top of the thread too much.

The "more" pagination button appears to only be visible on the first page of comments....you need to update the URL manually to get to comment pages 3+

Oh! The second page was crashing. It should be fixed now. Eesh; I'm sorry.

There's a bug that we haven't fixed yet, the workaround for which is to restart the server after renaming an account. I must have forgotten to do that.

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