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EDIT: dang, I understand my political views don't align with vast majority of HN but me replying to correct false info keeps giving me this error on HN:

"You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks."

I think HN keeps turning into an echo chamber and any opposing view point on a specific political topic gets censored/throttled here too. How can you expect me to have a proper discussion when I am not even allowed to reply?

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96% of the donations from Big Tech went to Democrats. This is a verifiable fact.

The first censorship of this story came from Facebook and the statement from them was this by Andy Stone, FB communications. Andy Stone is a former DCCC (DCCC: Committed to electing Democrats to the U.S. House of Representatives)

https://mobile.twitter.com/andymstone/status/131639590247987...

The person at twitter making these decisions is Nick Pacilio, Twitter Communications who's also Kamala Harris' former press secretary:

https://twitter.com/NickPacilio/status/1291160646231392261

Facebook's executive Jessica Hertz as well as Twitter's director of public policy Carlos Monje are Biden's transition team.

Kamala Harris had repeatedly called for suspending her opponent's twitter account:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mnunez/2019/10/02/kamala-harris...

when you mean "Big Tech" do you mean employees, the companies themselves, and / or the executives that lead those companies. Looking around, I only see some statements says only 96% employees of tech firms and media orgs back Democrats.

Looking at companies themselves it seems like they readily back Republicans as much as Democrats. I didn't do any super deep digging, but this is what I am basing my statements on.

https://www.mic.com/p/tech-companies-have-given-millions-of-...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/11/17219930/facebook-campaig...

(you're not being censored for your political views, it's because you're posting too many times in one thread. I get the same alert sometimes)

Again, my point isn't that there are no Democratic Facebook execs, it's that they play both sides. To whit:

> Indeed, the three top leaders of Facebook's DC office all have extensive backgrounds in Republican politics: Vice President for Global Public Policy Joel Kaplan; Vice President for U.S. Public Policy Kevin Martin; and Public Policy Director for Global Elections Katie Harbath.

https://popular.info/p/the-republican-political-operatives

That article also outlines a number of right-wing friendly moves that Facebook has made in recent years, just as a counterpoint to the example being discussed here.

I agree with you that the vast majority of staff at these tech companies are Democrats, but I'm talking about the top-level execs. And once you reach that level you see the top tech companies play both sides of the political aisle as best they can.

Are there any examples when big tech has "made a mistake" or "banned" someone on the lefty leaning side by mistake? I have countless examples of right leaning views get banned and censored "by mistake". When mistakes always happen to one side, the right loses faith in the system.

Simply pointing out a couple executives being republican doesn't have anything of value. This isn't about democrat vs republican. This is about democrats + RINOs vs Trump supporters. Having people like Mitt Romney or John McCain type republicans is of no value. Vast majority of Trump supporters dislike them.

I will give a couple examples - the Biden campaign keeps tweeting the same lie again and again about Trump not condemning white nationalists at the Charlottesville incident. This is an easily verifiable lie. Yet twitter nor Facebook ever marks this as "debunked".

Another example - In October 2016 and October 2020, NYTimes put out articles claiming to have the tax data for Trump. They didn't disclose any sources, nor was it verified. And if the data they had was correct, they obtained it illegally. Yet Twitter nor Facebook banned this on their platform.

Another example - last week, media ran stories with secretly recorded audio of Melania Trump. This wasn't banned either.

Here's an example from a few hour ago where FB deleted a post and restricted monetization by BabylonBee (satire) for "violating our Community Standards.":

https://mobile.twitter.com/The_Kyle_Mann/status/131749666800...

Yet these platforms are now claiming the NYPost story cannot be allowed because it's "hacked" data. It's not hacked data plus even if it was, they don't apply the same standard to news which might hurt Trump.

As for not being able to comment on the same thread, if that's the case, then this is a very poor UX. Not being able to interact at all (I wasn't able to for at least a day) on a topic you are passionate about makes the site pointless.

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It's strange how someone seems to be monitoring this 3 day old post on HN and flagging and downvoting my comments instantly.

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