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Comment by lbrooks | Hacker News Reader

HN is removing things that are 'libertarian' but not things that are 'socialist.' If socialist content is on the table, then libertarian content should be as well.

When an article about a Libertarian movie reviewer on LetterBoxd was flagged and removed from Hn yesterday within minutes...

https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/society-reviews-letterboxd-b...

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Every ideological side feels like the site and the mods are biased against it. This a consequence of ideological passion, not an objective perception. I can give you a long list of links where people complain that HN is biased the other way. Here are just a few:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20637454

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21316611

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21641004

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21432833

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231654

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21186128

I'll stop there.

Why is this even so high on HN? This isn't interesting news -- it's both a wikipedia page and propaganda. We're told to eschew flamebait in comments, but not for submissions?

Flag this.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

is it propaganda because you don't like the message?

It's propaganda because it's trying to advance a political or ideological agenda by influencing the audience through an emotional argument. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with that - any successful political ideology does this, because that's how you organize mass movements.

Is it considered kosher here to post a link in a comment after it was flagged and made dead? Seems like you’re trying to circumvent HN’s system.

Agreed. I thought hn was about staying away from stuff like this. Nobody learned anything valuable from a Wikipedia entry on a socialist cartoon.

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