A good analysis article around _why_ technology companies are moving in one direction on moderation policy at once? Yes. Excellent.
As-it-happens news articles? Ehhh. Not as much. There are other places on the internet for that sort of thing.
That said, I will admit that our comments sections sucks ass on these topics which is perhaps reason enough to avoid them. But that's a reason I accept unlike "lol it's just one dumb podcast cmon."
Please tell me where on the internet you can get better discussion on these topics than here? This is one of the few places where these things can even be discussed by people with opposing viewpoints without instantaneous flamewar apocalypse.
> these discussions are far inferior to what is typical here.
Thats probably true, people here have political opinions and values but they aren't policy wonks. Perhaps there is (or could be) an hn equivalent for pols and wonks and they would have really invigorating discussions about policy and rarely flame each other because they were past that level. Then every so often someone would post something about programming a universal remote controller and they'd flame each other about technical topics and each others' ignorant opinions on how humans and machines interact.
> There might even be some interesting points being made about the role of technology in all this, but they're being drowned out by the purely political back-and-forth.
I'm just happy that people with different viewpoints are learning from each other. People with different viewpoints don't really learn from each other on most other platforms. They basically only learn to emulate the rhetorical jabs that score points.
But they recognize that reality sometimes intrudes into our money-making daydream, and it would be low IQ to ban political discussions. I am critical of the overall thrust behind HN, but they have cleverly convinced a lot of people that they are above average and I wouldn't expect them to do anything heavy-handed. So some politics will remain on HN.
Republicans getting their just desserts as viewed through the lens of the new normal of social media content policy sure gratifies my intellectual curiosity, for what it's worth.