70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

Re:70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked ... by dang on Monday January 11, 2021 @01:21PM (#25733290)

It's against the rules to use this site primarily for ideological battle, and we ban accounts that do it, regardless of which ideology they're battling for. We have to, because it's the primary thing that destroys the curious conversation this site exists for.

I've therefore banned this account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

Yes, the rules are just the same for the opposite ideological side.

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

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Re:70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked ... by sillycon-valley on Monday January 11, 2021 @01:33PM (#25733561)

You banned the account I replied to right? I was pointing out the conspiracy post...

EDIT - because of rate limiting:

I've posted in both technical articles and political articles.

There have been a lot of political articles recently with the tech bans. I cannot help that.

Most of my comments are about freedom of speech, not really a political ideology.

I did not create an account to feed hellfire, I created an account to voice my opinion and debate from the other side because I see such one-sided arguments.

This is why you have an echo-chamber.

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Re:70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked ... by dang on Monday January 11, 2021 @01:38PM (#25733756)

I looked at the other account's history the same way I looked at yours. The comment you replied to was not great, but the account hasn't been abusing the site overall, while yours has. If that assessment were the other way around, so would the ban be.

Creating an account just to feed hellfire on HN is obviously a bannable offense—it's a way of killing what this site is supposed to exist for. We need an immune system against that. The immune system doesn't care what color the flames are.

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