Re:Dreamwidth Banned by PayPal in 2008 for Refusing to Censo...
by dang on Friday August 25, 2017 @01:27PM
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The article is from April 2017. The title has been editorialized, which breaks the HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). On HN, submitters don't have special rights over articles and don't get to frame them for everyone else. Doing the latter, as this thread amply illustrates, amounts to controlling the discussion.
Worse, the detail that was cherry-picked (presumably because censorship issues are a hot topic) refers to something which the article makes clear happened years ago. Making it sound like it happened today ("Dreamwidth Banned by PayPal for Refusing to Censor Users") was egregiously misleading. We take story submission privileges away from users who do this kind of thing, so please don't do it. I've added 2008 to the title above as a fire extinguisher.
Submitters: If you want to say what you think is important about an article, you're welcome to do so by posting a comment to the thread. Then your view is on a level field with everyone else's.
Worse, the detail that was cherry-picked (presumably because censorship issues are a hot topic) refers to something which the article makes clear happened years ago. Making it sound like it happened today ("Dreamwidth Banned by PayPal for Refusing to Censor Users") was egregiously misleading. We take story submission privileges away from users who do this kind of thing, so please don't do it. I've added 2008 to the title above as a fire extinguisher.
Submitters: If you want to say what you think is important about an article, you're welcome to do so by posting a comment to the thread. Then your view is on a level field with everyone else's.