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Seeing as the tech companies have no interest in censoring based on "viewpoint" I don't see what difference this makes. Their entire existence relies on being the single point where everyone goes.

No Republicans have ever been removed solely for being Republican. People are removed for promoting violence and harassing other users.

The fact that Republicans consider violence to be a "viewpoint", and their viewpoint rather than that of a few extremists who use their name -- that worries me. A lot.

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Please don't take HN threads into political flamewar. Even by the (low) standard of the current thread, your comments here are standing out in a flamey way. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

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I apologize. I was expressing my opinion on politics that seemed inherent in the article itself, but I certainly should not have replied in a hot-take way to an offensive reply, and I should have bowed out before I started.

Thank you for your work in moderating this site.

Appreciated!

You should try to get out of your filter bubble more often.

that's not so easy... there are some national bubbles which the internet used to be good as igonring, but not once it became the mainstream internet.

now the national barriers exist online too, in addition to the pre-existing language barriers. i.e. the information technology has been deployed as an extra tool to apply national-linguistic barriers between peoples.

I don't visit a single website that tries to serve me political content dynamically - no Facebook, no Twitter. Except YouTube, but I don't watch anything political there, and the algorithm seems to know it. I don't read the "MSM" news outlets, as they're called. But I observe the same trend the parent describes - in forums, in apparently objective news stories, in the previous US president, and in real life. I'm not saying this as a political cudgel. This personality "flaw" is common across the world and is just one of many on all sides, and it's not a surprise that people with any given personality commonality will bias to one side in any given two-party system, and in the US, this one appears to bias toward the Republican party. It's hard to talk about objectively and not invoke anger, which is reasonable. It is worrying, but there's rarely a time in polite conversation when it is relevant enough to bother pointing out. Content moderation is one of those times, I think. There's plenty of unfair moderation out there, but a lot of what people call a bias against the right in the US seems to usually just be a bias in the tendency of what they say to break seemingly reasonable content/behavior rules.

Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes everything worse.

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Are you doing that “rules for radicals” think where you accuse the other side of doing the exact thing you’re guilty of?

Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. We ban accounts that post like this.

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