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Let me guess, they don't align with "strong liberal" views so any controversial part of their past makes them cancel-able ("ban" as you say).

I now feel like I will hesitate to submit a Cato article in the future, and I don't even know what is wrong with them! Basically exactly what the article discusses.

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To be fair, HN does remove a ton of political posts. If they didn't, this tech forum would be overrun with irrelevant political discussion.

Conservative think tanks posts can definitely stimulate good discussion, but if you don't moderate consistently, the community will eventually form a hivemind politically.

There are a ton of information available about the Cato institute online. If you "don't even know what is wrong with them", don't want to post about them and don't want to inform yourself that's on you.

https://thelogicofscience.com/2016/09/27/dont-tell-people-to...

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