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Re: SoundCloud has banned VPN access

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Please make your substantive points without crossing into personal attack. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I fail to see how this is a personal attack. I was basically saying I don’t understand why people always have to post these ostensibly on-topic, actually off-topic humble brags (?). Where’s the attack? “You know perfectly well”? People have really thin skins these days if that counts as an attack. I see multiple more aggressive comments in this very comment tree (e.g. “it's an ignorant and arrogant take”) and IMO eve…

"You know perfectly well" is already edgy, but when you follow it with "I don't understand the motivation of these $dumb-comment-paraphrase" and then a "like, come on" and a "you're not impressing anyone", you've crossed well into personal attack.

You're a great HN user and commenter and your contributions are much appreciated! I don't want to come across like a bag of bricks but if you would use this feedback to fine-tune a bit, that would be appreciated.

(You may be right that other commenters were breaking the guidelines worse, but we just don't come close to seeing everything, and a lot of what we do see happens by random access.)

Re: SoundCloud has banned VPN access

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> this is where i switch back to downloading music off russian pirate websites. As a bonus you may even get discount codes for your VPN! For real tho, fuck all those rent-seeking control freaks. Piracy was almost dead, we had a good deal. But no, it's never enough, so here we are. Also, some piracy boards are actually pretty steady, nice and cool communities, and listing to local files feels way more intentional.

well, life isn't all sunshines and rainbows after all :) i'm glad there are lots of people who think just like i do and are ready to sacrifice convenience for the sake of privacy

just checked in with my mullvad vpn, soundcloud now lets you in with a vpn on! yay
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