TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people and the poor

Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by dang on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @10:56PM (#22613163)

Since you've ignored our many requests to stop doing nationalistic flamewar on Hacker News, I've banned this account. If you don't want to be banned, you can email [email protected] and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.

Maybe you don't owe a country better, but you owe this community considerably better if you want to post here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by GarrisonPrime on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @06:49AM (#22615248)

I'll assume you know better than I, but while browsing the past few weeks of that account's comments I didn't see any "nationalistic flamewar" talk. Just a few mentions of Chinese authoritarianism and the stiffing of dissent and open discourse.

...oh.

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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by dang on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @03:23PM (#22620268)

Maybe in order for it to fully make sense, you have to understand that we'd warned that account four times already, as well as some other things that aren't public.

But even apart from that, there is a litany of comments that broke the site guidelines. It's not like these were hard to find:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22321296

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22313537

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22447855

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22291539

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22251922

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22209247

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