There are now results but none about Tiananmen Massacre
There are no results for tank man
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#432Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't we all know that the CCP employs agents to flag critical content. Do we have any reason to think said agents aren't active here?
I don't think this sort of baseless speculation is useful. God forbid a Chinese citizen support their own government without being an agent or brainwashed. Way to deny a billion people the agency to disagree with you. Flagged this comment; US citizen, btw
> God forbid a Chinese citizen support their own government.
Does flagging stories highlighting "tank man" search results count as "supporting the Chinese government"?
That's a weird kind of "support".
I think you can be impressed by the economic progress China has through without denying reality.
Indeed, I do respect that such economic progress certainly isn't a given.
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#433Re: There are no results for tank man
#434In case you're wondering why this is news, there are numerous obvious, worldwide, relevant results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/25-years-later-tank-man-st... (Note: Microsoft owns this page!) https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/remembering-the-t...
Thank you for posting this.
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#435Earlier quoted context omitted.
Something else that I find curious is that this entry vanished from front page for a while, and now it's stuck at the bottom, even though it has twice the points in half the time compared with post number #5 (at the time of writing).
I don't think we need invoke any conspiracies for that; HN's algorithm is ever mysterious. Yesterday a submission of mine hit the front page in 3 seconds with no upvotes.
For those who've made it this far down into the thread but not yet seen dang's reply, it's further upthread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27397230
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#436Anytime China shows up on hacker news I get the distinct impression that two well funded troll farms are slugging it out, downvoting and flagging the enemy and upvoting their own side. It’s like watching 2 AIs playing civilization with each other, mindlessly sending forth wave after wave of clubmen in an endless war of attrition that goes nowhere.
Poor saps who try to express a nuanced view get attacked by both sides. But we know that the Chinese government does this, and we know that certain organizations like turning point USA do this, although of course I don’t know if either of those groups are active on HN.
But it’s the impression I get.
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#437Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then un-flag it, dang. You explained to me (and HN) recently that posts which are critical of HN itself are moderated less, not more, than others. The same standard should apply to posts in which a greatly disadvantaged group are standing up to a vastly superior power, all else being equal (credibility, tactics, nature of grievance, etc.) As with content concerning the events of June 4, 1989, in Tiananmen Square, Chi…
I've unflagged it. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27399369 . Btw I'm not necessarily agreeing that those were bad flags; but in cases like this, the community has the final say.
Thanks, apprciated.
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#438@dang, I think we need an explanation for why Tank Man-related content on Hacker News has been disappearing all day. I usually trust HN to be a bastion of free speech, and if there isn't some kind of proportionate response here, I don't believe myself or many others here will be able to see it that way going forward. EDIT: Thank you for your response, dang. Hacker News is a special place, which is why we have respond…
This post is on the front page right now (edit: and now also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27396783 ) - that's the opposite of "disappearing". I'd have to see links to the other ones. Here's one tip for you guys, from years-long, world-weary experience: if you're coming up with sensational explanations in breathless excitement, it's almost certainly untrue. Edit: ok, here's what happened. Users flagged https:/…
It almost feel like the only sane moderation system is to expose as much information as possible to all users? as much as the moderators have?
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#439Earlier quoted context omitted.
This post is on the front page right now (edit: and now also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27396783 ) - that's the opposite of "disappearing". I'd have to see links to the other ones. Here's one tip for you guys, from years-long, world-weary experience: if you're coming up with sensational explanations in breathless excitement, it's almost certainly untrue. Edit: ok, here's what happened. Users flagged https:/…
It almost feel like the only sane moderation system is to expose as much information as possible to all users? as much as the moderators have?
Seems nice until the intentionally abusive use this information to toe the line or inundate moderation until it’s crippled.
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#440Earlier quoted context omitted.
No profiling. > DuckDuckGo distinguishes itself from other search engines by not profiling its users and by showing all users the same search results for a given search term. Also note that DDG doesn’t just rely on Bing. > DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of "over 400" sources, including Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Bing, Yandex, its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot) and others. Source: https://en.m.wikip…
Well either it uses only Bing for images, or it also censors. Because I sure wasn't able to find the picture on DDG. So either way, as a user of DDG from day one - it's dead to me.
This is concerning.