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Genocide "is a political opinion I disagree with"

It looks like you've been using HN primarily for political battle. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of which politics you're for or against.

It's one thing to join in occasional political discussion as part of a variety of intellectually interesting topics, but quite another to only (or mostly) be using the site for that. Once that line is crossed, HN is clearly not being used as intended, and there's a huge difference in how those two different kinds of account impact the site. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and adjust accordingly?

If you or anyone want more explanation about how and why we draw the line this way, there's plenty here:

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Dang, educate yourself on Facebook’s effect in Myanmar.

If you think this is just political battles, perhaps do a bit of self reflection and maybe Hacker News is not the pinnacle of intellectual thought you are giving it the credit of being.

I don't think that about HN, or anything close to that.

Please follow the site guidelines when commenting here.

I will. But let me say this, for 30 years Godwin’s law was sort of a joke on the internet and circa 10 yrs ago, I would have expected a genocide comment to be ridiculous. But considering this context, it is relevant not merely a “political” battle.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/06/21/facebook-keeps-failing-...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

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