Re:Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intoleran...
by dang on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @12:47AM
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There are two factors here. First, nostalgia bias. HN was never apolitical and a lot of the stuff that used to appear here was just as intense. I wrote about this recently so I could regurgitate the link when this perception pops up. Here you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869.
The other factor is that society has been repolarizing ideologically. That's a massive macro trend and HN, alas, has no immunity from those.
We're probably in for rougher waters, which is why we're trying to set down stronger markers about what's unacceptable here. The idea of HN has always been that a place for substantive, thoughtful discussion on the internet is probably doomed, but let's try to survive as long as we can. We'll do our best, but Cnut cannot command the waves to stop.
The other factor is that society has been repolarizing ideologically. That's a massive macro trend and HN, alas, has no immunity from those.
We're probably in for rougher waters, which is why we're trying to set down stronger markers about what's unacceptable here. The idea of HN has always been that a place for substantive, thoughtful discussion on the internet is probably doomed, but let's try to survive as long as we can. We'll do our best, but Cnut cannot command the waves to stop.