HN isn't actively censoring anything in that way, and we've always been clear that nationalistic attacks are not allowed against any nation or national group here.
What is true that the HN community (though highly international) is mostly Western, so there's a bias in favor of Western points of view and some difficulty in opening to non-Western points of view. We try to help with this where we can, but there's not a lot we can do.
Among the many problems with this is that minority participants—that is, the ones with contrarian or minority views—tend to feel embattled and to defensively break the site guidelines themselves. (You've done that in your own post here, for example.) That puts the moderators in a quandary: we want minority viewpoints to be heard fairly, but we can't condone the guidelines breakage. I wrote about this recently if anyone cares: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
HN isn't actively censoring anything in that way, and we've always been clear that nationalistic attacks are not allowed against any nation or national group here.
What is true that the HN community (though highly international) is mostly Western, so there's a bias in favor of Western points of view and some difficulty in opening to non-Western points of view. We try to help with this where we can, but there's not a lot we can do.
Among the many problems with this is that minority participants—that is, the ones with contrarian or minority views—tend to feel embattled and to defensively break the site guidelines themselves. (You've done that in your own post here, for example.) That puts the moderators in a quandary: we want minority viewpoints to be heard fairly, but we can't condone the guidelines breakage. I wrote about this recently if anyone cares: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
> HN isn't actively censoring anything in that way
Well dunno… you're responding to a deleted comment that I can't read. Maybe he had a point about censoring :D
Not deleted—we only ever delete comments when the author asks us to, and they show as [deleted], not [dead].
[dead] comments are readable by anyone who wants to turn 'showdead' on in their profile. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
In the case of the GP comment, it was [dead] because users flagged it. (I've unkilled it now though.)
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