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Comment by dang

2 days ago

> Currently there is not a single remotely political post on the front page, as the moderators intended. But yes I should believe you and not my lying eyes

This was on the frontpage for 18 hours yesterday: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

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jLaForest  2 days ago

The third to comment on that post is:

Glad to see this post didn't get flagged like the one that was posted yesterday on a similar topic about ICE data mining and user tracking.

Obviously I'm not the only one noticing the one sided censorship. If you want to ban political discussion, just be honest about it.

You called my parent comment false, yet this post is still flagged... Add gaslighting to the list. I better hush up before my whole account gets banned...

  • dang  2 days ago

    Political discussion isn't banned on HN. If you want to understand the approach we take, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46758424, and that was because everything it says is false. I didn't flag that post, didn't kill discussion, don't "protect the interests of this administration", and don't kill all discussion that is critical.

    We don't ban accounts for criticizing us. We ban them for breaking the site guidelines.