Re:Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment
by benmmurphy on Saturday June 26, 2021 @02:46PM
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Our elites would be more secure and less embarrassed if they didn't have to deal with a free press but society is made up more than the elites and we need weigh the utility of the rest of society as well.
Re:Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment
by johnchristopher on Saturday June 26, 2021 @03:05PM
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> I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted so much, the point is definitely interesting
I have observed a `shark smelling blood` thing going sometimes on HN. If the timing is right and if a child comment in an upvoted parent that is at the top of post gets one or two downvotes then it has some visibility and then it attracts downvote clicks. If there are 4 or 5 other children they get ignored (I believe the last one gets all the downvote because people parse from top to bottom and only bother interacting with first or last elements... so some posts will get buried while others will sail through) shrug, it might be all in my head though ;).
Imagine a leak comes out about Putin (you don’t have to imagine that hard..). It would hardly make any noise: there’s no more free press to raise a stink about it, and the population is so used to swimming in the post-truth sewage spewing from the top that they’ll just ignore it