Comment by ryandrake
7 hours ago
> TikTok is known for tipping the scales on political keywords everywhere.
All social media does this. Even HN (through its users flagging articles). This article will be flagged by users and removed from the front page very soon, just as a similar one[1] was already.
> All social media does this. Even HN (through its users flagging articles).
I don't consider user-directed upvotes/downvotes/flags to be in the same category as company or state decided censorship.
The observed effect is the same: A relatively small number of people decide, based on political leanings, what is on-topic and off-topic, on behalf of the rest of the users.