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Re:Turkey determined to control social media platforms, Erdo... by whatshisface on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @10:25AM (#23701668)
Personally I have found that on HN there is more of a dictatorship of phrasing than a dictatorship of ideas. Here's the short list of ideas you can't say on HN no matter how you phrase them, I think you would agree that this is not excessive:

- "Individuals of one race are better or worse than individuals of another."

- "One gender is clearly better or worse than another."

- Anything about Republicans or Democrats

The origin of this list is not that the mods are biased, it's that they have a 100% correlation with foaming at the mouth.

As far as I can tell that's the whole list. Anyone care to add to it? Do not repeat the actual arguments, that will start a flame war.

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Re:Turkey determined to control social media platforms, Erdo... by kebman on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @10:38AM (#23701821)
I'm actually amazed that there was a somewhat troll-free discussion about the protests and riots going on in the USA (and the West) right now. I think this is a giant kudos to HN. It's just a great feeling that we can disagree, but in a polite manner. Thank you for this HN! This is the basis of democracy!
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Re:Turkey determined to control social media platforms, Erdo... by michaelmarion on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @10:29AM (#23701718)
Spaces versus tabs? /s
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Re:Turkey determined to control social media platforms, Erdo... by throwaway67654 on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @10:38AM (#23701823)
- Anything positive about China

- Relating ad blocking to piracy

- Benefits of open offices

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Re:Turkey determined to control social media platforms, Erdo... by flyinglizard on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @10:46AM (#23701913)
These may be controversial but you won’t be canceled.
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Re:Turkey determined to control social media platforms, Erdo... by ferzul on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @05:52PM (#23707201)
they were downvoted. downvoting costs reputation and can lead to a dead post. downvoting means, “don't argue this position again”. fair to say they were cancelled i think.
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Re:Turkey determined to control social media platforms, Erdo... by flyinglizard on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @08:31PM (#23708568)
The problem with cancel culture is that it cancels the person, rather than their post. Downvoting is fine because it downvotes a specific expression of opinion - it does not go against the person for wrongthink.
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