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Comment by georgemcbay

11 days ago

> I'd really like to understand why posts like this often get flagged on HN.

YC is a fairly pro-oligarchy/pro-authoritarian organization and the in-group protects itself.

See: funding flock (and dozens of other authoritarian-adjacent surveillance/defense companies), YC CEO Garry Tan's recent political advocacy history, etc.

You don't say "We need more billionaires" unless you are pro-oligarchy/pro-authoritarian (or unless you are ignorant of history and fundamentally don't understand how inevitable it is that unaddressed extreme wealth inequality always leads to oligarchy and authoritarianism).

https://x.com/garrytan/status/1942992514954224025

Threads like this always get flagged as soon as they gain any sort of traction. Free speech for me, but not for thee.

Because this is just a thread for people to whine about Meta with no real solutions. Most threads about Meta have nothing constructive or insightful to say at all.

And, in this case, it lasted all of 90 minutes and speaks of a typical autoban ML feature. This happens all the time. False positives are going to happen constantly with a company that literally has 4 billion people use.