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Comment by topspin

15 hours ago

There is no "we." I can throw a dart at the a wall of HN usernames, and the odds are rather high that the name I'd hit wants me deplatformed, debanked and consigned to a GULAG. The implied threat about the consequences of not somehow "fixing" my heart tells me everything I need to know about the heinous purity spiral Internet and planet you think you want.

Not just no. Hell no. If it were a choice between whatever you claim to offer and an Internet that made me select from among curated sites as if they were cable channels, I'd take the latter. I thank my maker that such a choice remains hypothetical, and I feel no small amount of joy that you can't "fix" that.

Cannot agree more... Tired of flags being waved at the wrong places and times.

Unequivocally, 100% agree. Disagreeing with "them" on HN even on these issues the author agrees with would also have me consigned to the nearest gulag/re-education center. "As ever, unionize, free Palestine, trans rights are human rights, fix your heart or die."

  • Oh my god, I didn't even get to the bottom, I thought you were being hyperbolic with that quote. Insane.

  • It's annoying that you guys clutch your pearls over an imaginary gulag while actual people are being actually rounded up and sent to camps.