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Re:70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked ... by Wowfunhappy on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:52PM (#25738900)
I believe that happens when HN suspects the account is from a person who was banned previously, based on IP's and/or some other heuristic. I've seen dang say something like "If you create new accounts to break the guidelines, eventually we just start banning your new accounts."
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Re:70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked ... by saagarjha on Monday January 11, 2021 @09:56PM (#25741675)
Perhaps! It might be that these people were unfortunate to share a network with someone malicious (maybe a university, or a company) and this dooms their initial comments.
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