Comment by paxys
1 year ago
This has been happening since the day Musk took over Twitter (here's one from December 2022 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/technology/twitter-suspen...). There are always people (including a large chunk on HN itself) who will come up with more and more elaborate excuses for his purges and maintain that he is all about free speech and neutrality. I'm sure same will happen for this one.
Edit: as expected, this post has been flagged.
You're assuming the post was flagged in an effort to hide the alleged truth of the story. It's more likely it was flagged because it's political in nature. Change it to "Journalists, Rightists" and I'd flag it, as well.
flagging is wayyy too easy on HN... I bet admins have extreme flagging powers too
They do afaik. I wish flagged posts showed who flagged them at least. If there was manipulation or coordinated acts to flag submissions, it would be a lot easier to figure out.
Or replace user id with a hash, that way one could identify patterns without premature witch hunts.
Is there a database somewhere that keeps track of all the flagged threads on here so we can see what gets censored on a regular basis? It would be fun to k-means cluster it and see what is verboten to HN users or staff.