Re:YouTube Bans Alex Jones, Following Facebook's and Apple's...
by tchaffee on Monday August 06, 2018 @10:51PM
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What situation? What law would a company or individual be breaking by working to stop getting Trump elected again?
Re:YouTube Bans Alex Jones, Following Facebook's and Apple's...
by ffgdgggg on Thursday August 09, 2018 @11:01PM
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Electoral laws.
Re:YouTube Bans Alex Jones, Following Facebook's and Apple's...
by dang on Saturday August 11, 2018 @12:55AM
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Could you please stop creating new accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do this, and it's in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
HN is a community. Obviously you don't have to use your real name, but if users don't have some consistent identity for others to relate to, we may as well have no usernames and no community at all. That would be a different kind of forum. Anonymity is fine, and throwaways for a specific purpose are ok—just not routinely.
https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
This push is coming from a desire to prevent Jones from being active in the 2018 midterms.
If a Republican files a complaint with the FEC and there are employee messages talking about how they have to ban Jones to stop Trump, then the tech companies could have a situation on their hands.