Comment by kotaKat

10 hours ago

well… i submitted it as https://lite.cnn.com/2026/01/26/tech/tiktok-ice-censorship-g... but i guess HN drops the lite off of it? le sigh, here’s hoping someone can frontpage one of these tiktok censorship stories today…?

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JKCalhoun  10 hours ago

Looks like this one made it to the front page.

Interesting times…

My mother was born just after WWII—died a few years ago. As sad as I have been (still am) when I watch the world fall apart around me I am thankful that she at least lived through perhaps the best stretch American history—does not have to see the shit I am seeing daily (she was the type that would have been unconsolably anxious about it).

I feel badly, so far, for my daughters born roughly in the period around September 11, 2001. Still, I'm hopeful they might yet see even a brighter future than I had growing up in the 70's…

  • criddell  8 hours ago

    Based on this comment, I think we are around the same age. I'm 55 and have two kids born in the early 2000's.

    I was born in Canada in 1970 to loving and extraordinarily supportive parents and moved to the US in the mid 90's. I can't imagine a better time or place to have been born. I have kids around the same age as yours and their lives are so much more difficult even though they are smarter and harder working than I ever was.

  • pjmlp  9 hours ago

    I am the first generation after the fall of Salazar's dictorship, so naturally I belong to those that had the opportunity to grow in freedom while hearing the stories from everyone that suffered from it, the dead and crippled from colonial wars, many sent as punishment for their political views and so on.

    Never I though that I would still see the return to such politics in my lifetime, even in Europe it is getting harder to push back on them.

  • BeetleB  7 hours ago

    > I am thankful that she at least lived through perhaps the best stretch American history—does not have to see the shit I am seeing daily

    I think the Vietnam War was much worse than what you are seeing daily...

nomilk  10 hours ago

Meta note: it would be awesome to collate a list of 'better ways to view populate sites'. For example, I only learned recently that replacing www with old in a reddit url takes you to a less cluttered version of the site. And I only recently bookmarked a couple of 'archiving' sites (important for reading content that's paywalled). TIL your cnn 'lite' technique.