Are you comparing the US with China, where the CCP controls everything, a non-elected government, and literally has their fingers in every company of importance there? Maybe I'm misinterpreting your comment, your intent is a bit ambiguous.

If u seriously believe we the youngest country in the world r not headed to exactly to where u just commented about U r either blind to history of the world or a democrat!!

I hate when I spent 5 minutes typing the comment and then HN tells me I'm blocked for unknown amount of time because I was downvoted. So replying with a different account to keep the comment. Sorry dang.

The original response:

Of course not. I'm just pointing to the flaw in this argument: if everybody ban you, then you are the problem. Sometimes there are other reasons for that than you, and I provided with an example.

> literally has their fingers in every company of importance there

However, now you said it, authoritarian states work differently. They don't tell every company what they should do. Each private company already knows what it should do, otherwise they will have certain consequences like change of ownership.

But again, putting the equal sign between PRC and the US is wrong at the moment.

> I'm blocked for unknown amount of time because I was downvoted

Is that really a thing on HN? Seems pretty unfair to block someone because of an unpopular view, isn't flagging used for that when a comment breaches the guidelines?

No, you don't get blocked for an unpopular view or for violating some nebulous 'groupthink'. You need to clearly cross the line several times to get blocked.

No need to get blocked you get suppressed. And plenty people dont even take the time anymore to write something known to be unpopular here. Including myself. HN is just as much a bubble as any other place. Probably should be rewritten in Rust.

> > I'm blocked for unknown amount of time because I was downvoted

> Is that really a thing on HN? Seems pretty unfair to block someone because of an unpopular view, isn't flagging used for that when a comment breaches the guidelines?

Hamster news is not a safe space for wrongthink.