It looks like you've been using HN primarily for political battle, as well as posting a ton of unsubstantive comments. We ban accounts that do those things (regardless of which politics they support or oppose). I don't want to ban you, but we have to protect this place, and political battle and unsubstantive comments are the two biggest problems.
If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this, we'd appreciate it.
Re:Ask HN: Is Signal Down?
by x86ARMsRace on Sunday January 17, 2021 @08:20PM
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Worth mentioning here that the reply in question is dishonest, bad faith argument.
All that this person did was tell me I was wrong, then restate my exact point that the service went down due to hitting a capacity limit. Really the only difference between what they said and what I said was the lack of civility, and the additional assertion that Signal needed to be shutdown.
"But we have to protect this place" makes a great epitaph for rhetoric on the internet.
"Rhetoric" on a large, public internet forum is of extremely low quality so I think HN's fine with that transaction.
I'll knock it off. But that includes when they actually do come for Signal and Bitcoin.
Is there a way for users to block individual users to reduce some of that noise?
Isn’t Signal just groups and direct messages? Parler was a giant echo chamber where you can tumble down the rabbit hole, signal has no suggested groups or other broadcast to the word. Only broadcast to a channel opting into a conversation. Sure you can use it to coordinate and spread disinformation but it’s got a much lower viral spread.
Re:Ask HN: Is Signal Down?
by disruptalot on Friday January 15, 2021 @12:24PM
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Why don't we just shutdown the internet? We can finally get rid of it all.
What happens when they move from Signal to some other form of encrypted communication? Won't you need to ban that too? Have you considered the difficulty or the implications of what you are proposing?
Re:Ask HN: Is Signal Down?
by steinersupport on Friday January 15, 2021 @01:12PM
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Gotcha, encryption and privacy focused services are "a threat to our core tenents of freedom." Let's wipe it all out.
Good call.
Here's a hint: The entire 8M from Parler are using Signal. They're still plotting all the same violence, but instead of being protected by a promise from the founder, they're protected by the design of the app itself. There's no argument to use against Parler that can't be used against Signal. They need to be shut down now, before people die again.
Signal is a threat to our core tenets of freedom, security and democracy. Parler could change its moderation policy tomorrow but Signal can't change how it works.