Hacker News Reader

Comment by zionic | Hacker News Reader

having opinions and running your own website isn't censorship. it's exactly what freedom of speech is there to protect

Some of the stuff that I see [flagged] [dead], and more importantly, some of the stuff that isn't, is pretty shocking on this site.

Free speech absolutionists only stick with their opinion because they don't actually realize what absolute free speech / lack of moderation will look like.

In practice, they want to be offensive and racist on the internet without consequence, for a big audience. "Free speech for me but not for thee".

It's off-topic grievance peddling. Pretty annoying. Often the larger (HN specific) context is missing when finding these sunk posts.

Conversely even weird or offensive posts that are thoughtful or genuine are perfectly fine I think as long as they are on topic or at least topic adjacent.

Perfectly fine according to you, but others will disagree. For example I've noticed that those who posts religious messages will be rarely tolerated here, even if they are on topic or insightful

My comment doesn't imply I support bigotry, but is religion on topic? On a tech forum that would likely be a stretch. I think downvoting wouldn't reflect intolerance rather a clash of mentalities: strict rationalism versus whatever religion falls under.

Some religious people seem to like making things about religion just to be able to talk about it from my experience. Although this is also true for other subjects as well if the person is invested in the topic enough

Reply on news.ycombinator.com