HN has a long history of censoring particular groups of people based on identity. That’s why it’s become such a monoculture (a monoculture of people generally convinced than HN is diverse, however.)

Down voting things you disagree with despite being well articulated (in fact because they are well articulated) is a form of censorship here.

But of course it goes much further when shadowbanning is deployed to enforce the narrow and rigid views of the moderation team.

Yes, I know pointing this out means it will now happen to me.

Nothing a censor hates more than thwarting the narrative they are trying to enforce.

But that’s why you think it doesn’t happen here. This is the most harshly and hypocritically cultivated walled garden on the Net. (Moderators violate their own rules regularly with impunity.)

Alas, I cannot abide not pointing out these abuses.