Anyone care to say what they believe should be done, or is this just another mad about things thread? Anyone have ideas? What is the solution?
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BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs)
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Five cent army, assemble! Quick link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party They also flag posts to take down from the first page. Just look how many votes do this post have but barely on the first page, about to fall down.
If this is being flagged, it's likely because it's against the submission guidelines. It's hard to see how this gratifies intellectual curiosity, and it's a political topic without an interesting new phenomenon.
Your comment history is all about political posts. Did you flag these posts while writing comments under them?
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#34> The UK Foreign Office told the BBC it was "closely monitoring reports that members of the Uyghur diaspora in the UK have been harassed by the Chinese authorities", and that it had "raised our concerns directly with the Chinese embassy in London". I've always wondered, how is it not against the law to act on a foreign government's orders to harass citizens? We know that certain academics are getting arrested, but ma…
> how is it not against the law to act on a foreign government's orders to harass citizens? When you consider that until very recently, it was legal for NYPD officers to have sex with people in their custody, and indeed, in many places it is still legal for police to coerce sex from people in their custody, you'll realize that law is reactionary and until it becomes a problem that catches a politician's eye, it won't…
> When you consider that until very recently, it was legal for NYPD officers to have sex with people in their custody
That has nothing to do with the subject.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Five cent army, assemble! Quick link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party They also flag posts to take down from the first page. Just look how many votes do this post have but barely on the first page, about to fall down.
It's a shame, I feel like it's our duty to boost these things - it's the least we can do. Maybe the HN team could manually do "flag locks" for certain articles that are being brigaded? Reddit has a "controversial" indicator on posts and comments that can help users identify that this is happening(heavily downvoted, but also heavily upvoted and interacted with).
This is way beyond being "controversial". First thing probably, HN team can investigate all China related posts and gather users who flagged these posts and take action accordingly.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
If this is being flagged, it's likely because it's against the submission guidelines. It's hard to see how this gratifies intellectual curiosity, and it's a political topic without an interesting new phenomenon.
Your comment history is all about political posts. Did you flag these posts while writing comments under them?
I don't recall ever flagging a submission, if I have it's infrequent.
That personal attack aside, political submissions don't have a blanket ban, but it's reasonable to see why this one would get flagged without blaming paid state actors.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you know that? I'm genuinely curious
Look up almost any genocide or mass killing of the 20th century, even the late 20th century, and see how nobody outside the area gave a damn. Pre-WW2, you've got millions exterminated in the Congo Free State. The Ottoman Empire killed a million Armenians, 500,000 Greeks, 400,000 Assyrians. The British starved five million Indians to death in 1900 and two million Bengalis in 1943 and nobody gave a single solitary shit…
Wouldn't it be a good idea to stop?
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#39Wow somebody came in and downvoted EVERYBODY in this thread. Five cent army, assemble!
> Five cent army, assemble!
lol
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Xinjiang literally translates to "new territory" and the fact that it isn't part of a Han-centric China is why this ethnic cleansing is happening.