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I find it funny that many people are constantly posting " Twitter censorship bad" on Hackernews, a moderated web site.

It's like the people who describe how utopian things would be without government, but for some reason don't want to move to Somalia.

I'm sure there's some unmoderated site filled with Nazi's high fiving each other you could be posting these thoughts on censorship. I don't belive there's any other kind of unmoderated site.

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> I don't belive there's any other kind of unmoderated site.

Moderation of a public space after consensus has been reached long it's members is fine, moderation before dissenting opinions have had their opportunity to be voiced, discussed and their merits disproved through consensus is not. The former is democratic, the latter dystopian.

I don’t think hacker news’ guidelines were assembled via consensus... I believe they were mostly a priori and the community formed around them

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