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> Path one - it's active suppression, which means mens rea, which means someone is out there silencing me, which means a conspiracy is active, to shut down criticism of Israel. Which means the Elders of Zion are at it again.

What a load of bullshit. "Anyone who thinks users are flagging this submission in deliberate bad faith must also believe xyz conspiracy theory"

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The user I was replying to wrote

> This kind of discussion is suppressed on HN

Typically people wouldn't use "suppressed" to mean: "there are disconnected users of this website who are, without coordination, independently flagging this submission in deliberate bad faith".

Typically "suppression" would refer to a coordinated deliberate act.

So I was simply replying to the most common interpretation of the user's words.

I understood them to be saying that a deliberate (and not accidental) attempt is being made to prevent "this kind of discussion" from happening.

You literally suppressed the discussion.

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