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Hacker News bans the same types of hate speech that Twitter prohibits. Is that "censorship", or only when Twitter does it?

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HN is a forum for nerds, not a public square. Even then, it's quite pro-freespeech.

I hear the twitter = public square analogy a lot but I fail to understand it. Here and on Twitter discussions take place. What is the difference?

One very obvious difference is that twitter does not purport to be a forum for any particular community or field of interest. So in that sense it's much more of a town square in that ppl can (or should be able to) tweet about anything.

Who is volunteering and binding them to be a public square with slippery slop values

HN seems to be more even handed though with a slight left bias when it comes to enforcement ...

Twitter on the other hand has such an extreme political bias that bias is written right in to the (current) rules for the platform

To compare the 2 is laughable

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