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Comment by adamsea | Hacker News Reader

Censorship of what?

Tell me specifically the content of the speech being censored, so we can have a reasonable discussion about if there might be a rare but valid reason to censor said speech.

Also, go fuck yourself.

[EDIT: Lets get to the heart of it. If you refuse to accept the results of the election, you are promoting treason. If you want to play second-grade word games to explain why President Trump isnt responsible for the attempted coup, you are promoting treason. And deep down you know you are wrong and feel shame, which is why you get so angry. You are not supported by the majority of Americans. Your cause has lost and ultimately will always lose, because it is fundamentally hateful. You still can reflect and change your beliefs and attitudes towards other people.]

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This and other comments you've been posting (like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25688419) have been breaking the site guidelines egregiously. That's dismaying and disappointing. We ban accounts that do this kind of thing, so please stop doing it.

Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and only post when you can keep that standard. Yes, we tell everyone else (including ourselves) the same thing. There's no exemption for being right, or feeling strongly. Nor does it depend on how badly other people behave.

Thank you. To reiterate, however, tolerant societies should not and cannot tolerate intolerance.

People promoting the “election fraud” lie, or supporting the insurrection/coup attempt are undermining democracy and are borderline seditious. It’s not okay to spread that lie, and if not ban, HN should at least officially condemn those false and odious beliefs.

Right now I believe it’s our civic duty to make clear that those beliefs are unacceptable and anti-democratic and will not be tolerated.

I don’t know if you really understand that an armed mob attempted to take hostage members of Congress in order to stop the certification of the new, legitimately elected President.

What do you believe? If supporting that isn’t the line that someone should be condemned for crossing, and shunned, then what is?

HN - your silence is complicity. How do you think people of color feel reading HN comments where folks argue how racism isn’t really a thing or was “solved” in the 60s? Do they feel like people are being kind according to the guidelines?

What does it say about you if you ban me for what I said, but keep the racists and folks who wouldn’t mind seeing Trump get three or four or five more terms, because I’m honest about my beliefs but they hide behind junior-high level verbal wordplay?

What part about "deleted" don't you understand?

Content moderation is a form of free speech. You don't get to tell others what to do just because of your wayward political views. They taught us this in elementary school.

I agree - but as I've said above at some point, at some certain size, moderation goes very quickly to censorship when you go deleting the largest platform by far for one side to discuss things, when they're NOT actually doing anything that thousands of other subreddits do that aren't banned.

No matter how you try to shoehorn it in there, it is not censorship for someone not to provide you a platform. Your viewpoint and perspective is free to be shared on several other platforms. They're not as big? So what? Your right to speak is not "your right to audience the size of your choosing".

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