It's not an illusion. I've been on HN across various accounts for over a decade. There is a hard liberal-progressive tilt to comments and post flagging which has been documented and remarked upon by others on sites where such comments don't get flagged and removed. Your own bias is also quite obvious, as is that of pg, who is now known on Twitter as a block-happy liberal lolcow. But thanks for posting all that, I'm glad Bolsheviks seething at Mensheviks haven't escaped your attention.
You and others on the right, as a group in 2025, only argue for freedom of speech when it suits you. Yes, the left does this too, and it's just as despicable.
This is an illusion - see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
It's not an illusion. I've been on HN across various accounts for over a decade. There is a hard liberal-progressive tilt to comments and post flagging which has been documented and remarked upon by others on sites where such comments don't get flagged and removed. Your own bias is also quite obvious, as is that of pg, who is now known on Twitter as a block-happy liberal lolcow. But thanks for posting all that, I'm glad Bolsheviks seething at Mensheviks haven't escaped your attention.
I still think my explanation is more convincing, but perhaps that's just me.
I'm curious why you asked "when did HN become this" if you're now telling us that it's been "this" for over a decade.
> which has been documented and remarked upon by others on sites
You should supply links so readers can make up their own minds about how convincing this documentation is.
When the right shifted the Overton window to include full-blown authoritarian fascism.
Yes, I and others on the right support full-blown authoritarian fascist positions like "freedom of speech"
You mean like this freedom of speech? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/elon-musk-to-fix...
You and others on the right, as a group in 2025, only argue for freedom of speech when it suits you. Yes, the left does this too, and it's just as despicable.
Explain to me in English why that statement is a progressive left statement.
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Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
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