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After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View

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Re: After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View

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Post by AlexeyBelov »

taurath wrote: post #257
eatithypocites wrote: post #232

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What happened since 2019?

Since about 2020 trolls started outright abusing HN by creating new accounts and posting straight up shit. Sometimes they don't even get banned, really, because YC doesn't want to appear controlling or something.

I see this almost every day in any thread that's even 5% "political". There are no consequences to this deranged behaviour, one might even say it's encouraged (because rightoid trolls love negative attention and a new account is two clicks away).

The main purpose of "green accounts" was so that a blog author could quickly respond to comments here, without having an account beforehand. This is like 1% of green accounts I see now.

Re: After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View

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Post by AlexeyBelov »

ndsipa_pomu wrote: post #225
rebolek wrote: post #135

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I don’t think it works that way for most people, maybe for some radicals but there are radicals on every side. Yesterday I overheard a conversation where a man was talking about a trip to our capital (in EU country) and how there were "strangepeople" (I wrote it together as it’s an insult as one word here and he meant it that way), wearing pink and rainbow and he was frightened and how’s he glad he returned to our sm…

There's a world of difference between someone who may not feel comfortable around people who look/dress differently and sending squads of masked men to round up people due to their ethnicity and send them off to concentration camps.

Those two things are five steps away from each other, not a hundred steps.

Re: After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View

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Post by AlexeyBelov »

giardini wrote: post #208
acdha wrote: post #203

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I think they’re saying this isn’t debate club. When companies are being threatened, when universities are being told their research grants will be illegally withheld unless they punish students or faculty for exercising constitutional rights, when civil servants are being vetted by political apparatchiks for their political views, it’s not a hypothetical question about the boundaries of civil discourse.

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This is said about everything when the thing being talked about / protested is inconvenient. The funniest is when people say "music is not supposed to be political" when artists push back against something in particular.

Of course universities were political for a hundred years, and students were often very active.

Re: After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View

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Post by taurath »

AlexeyBelov wrote: post #261
taurath wrote: post #257

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What happened since 2019?

Since about 2020 trolls started outright abusing HN by creating new accounts and posting straight up shit. Sometimes they don't even get banned, really, because YC doesn't want to appear controlling or something. I see this almost every day in any thread that's even 5% "political". There are no consequences to this deranged behaviour, one might even say it's encouraged (because rightoid trolls love negative attention…

Maybe it s due to moderation, but I have mostly seen green accounts making profoundly incendiary political statements, usually from the right. I tend to just ignore them, but I also tend to think of this as a platform that skews right because of the owners.

Re: After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View

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Post by theshrike79 »

UmGuys wrote: post #230
ajross wrote: post #190

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> absurdly hard to find in all the coverage. By design. If it was actually offensive Fox would be playing it non-stop. The offense has been excavated from inside an implication of a phrase in a nested clause in a sentence saying something unrelated. Kimmel said (as part of an argument that republicans were playing politics by pointing fingers) that republicans were trying to prove that Robinson was not a republican ,…

What do the people claiming to be offended find offensive about it? I thought the issue was the orange one didn't like him and wanted him cancelled.

They have been told by right-wing media that Jimmy Kimmel said something HORRIBLE about Charlie Kirk.

Nobody checks what he actually said, they're just angry because they were told to be angry.

Re: After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View

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Post by zzzeek »

clipsy wrote: post #260
zzzeek wrote: post #178

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Centimillionaire was chosen for a reason.

This post could have actually been informative if you'd bothered to elaborate on what that reason is, precisely.

no it's a puzzle. solvable too
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