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Comment by antisol | Hacker News Reader

They're almost impressive in their commitment to Gestapo tactics: only 10 mins to close the issue and block me without any comment or justification.

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For what it's worth, the tone you struck in the submission here would have resulted in a removal of your comment on any platform I've moderated in my years on the Internet.

Constructive criticism is completely fair, but your entitled tone both on GitHub and here on HN, is inappropriate. I'm not at all surprised your issue was removed and you were banned temporarily.

Honestly, what are you trying to accomplish here? I'm struggling to see how any of this could be construed as "constructive" at this point, and I'd be surprised if this HN submission doesn't get flagged out shortly.

Is it just me, or does

"These decisions took time to arrive at because - despite my role as the lead on the project - calls on this specific issue are not mine to make"

sound a hell of a lot like a diplomatic way of saying "I have been instructed to add spyware to audacity"?

How is the above entitled tone?

"The submission" I reference in my comment is the GitHub issue submitted to Hacker News that we are now commenting on, which is not the original comment, but a response to Audacity's moderation of its own repository.

I mean it's in a response to the one I mentioned. This should not be seen and only considered in isolation. The backstory and events play a part.

No self-respecting Open Source project should ban you for simply asking a question. I don't consider it entitlement to then go back and address the reaction specifically. At the very least both sides show emotions. One is hurt from the lack of openness, the other from being questioned at all.

You are exactly right. And you make the point so clearly and calmly. Thanks! :)

> what are you trying to accomplish here?

Raising awareness of censorship

It's not censorship. Your comments are still there to be read. They've just decided not to engage with you further. Free speech also includes freedom from speech.

In life, we choose which battles are important and which aren't worth the effort.

I'm not sure I'd personally have chosen, "Private organization on a private platform has 'censored' my snarky comment." as a battle worth fighting (though I do sympathize, it does not feel good to be ignored), but I am not you.

My response to this is: "fair enough" :)

Normally I'd say "Gestapo tactics" is an exaggeration for deleting a comment someone wrote on the internet, but given that the company in question has threatened someone with the specific brutality of the Chinese police, I think it might be warranted here.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/20/muse_group_deportatio...

> I will have to transfer information about you to lawyers who will cooperate with github.com and Chinese government to physically find you and stop the illegal use of licensed content.

> If found in violation of laws, residency may be revoked and he may be deported to his home country. This becomes even further complicated given another repo of his – 'Fuck 学习强国', which is highly critical of the Chinese government. Were he deported to China, who knows how he may be received.

Wow. Muse Group went from questionable to shady as fuck in 0.01 seconds.

That's easily among some of the most disgusting things you could threaten someone with.

Ain't life grand when getting into a kerfluffle over who gets to use sequences of 0's and 1's leads to potentially life destroying consequences.

IP everybody! Not even once! If it's worth making, it's worth making public!

On what grounds is this downvoted?

Pretty sure the grounds were "the troll factory muse group has hired finds this fact inconvenient"

Wow. Just WOW.

Here I was thinking I was being hyperbolic.

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