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Re:Millennials ‘Make Farming Sexy’ in Africa, Where Tilling ... by dang on Monday June 03, 2019 @02:09AM (#20080767)
It's not about silencing wrongthing so much as allowing other topics not to get drowned out by the ragey usual. Snail farming in Ghana is surely not as important as murder in South Africa, but what attracts curiosity more? That's the core question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In the unlikely event that Congress or the Whitehouse take an interest in HN moderation, I'll be happy to share with them how we approach this.

Re:Millennials ‘Make Farming Sexy’ in Africa, Where Tilling ... by FakeComments on Monday June 03, 2019 @09:03AM (#20082648)
> In the unlikely event that Congress or the Whitehouse take an interest in HN moderation, I'll be happy to share with them how we approach this.

“I’m doing the same things that triggered Congressional and Presidential investigations, and plan to continue until they harass me directly.”

You’re such an upstanding member of society.

I sincerely hope they do investigate you, because I believe your authoritarian censorship has infected other technology websites, and is the place many people at Google et al learned to censor for “civility”.

The exact thing that is under investigation.

And to anyone who feels silenced by dang, I suggest you reach out to your congressional representatives — and report the instances of censorship for narrative control you observe. This is an issue, and dang’s pretenses aside, it is being investigated as a serious social problem.

It’s time to standup to leftwing bullies silencing people who don’t agree as “offensive”, because those same leftwing bullies devolve into angry shouting when confronted by opposing views.

Re:Millennials ‘Make Farming Sexy’ in Africa, Where Tilling ... by dang on Monday June 03, 2019 @11:29AM (#20084206)
You're overestimating HN's influence by quite a bit.