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Re:Microsoft deletes all comments under heavily criticized W... by the_biot on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @03:22AM (#28058236)
Actually, that's not true. I entered a mildly critical comment on a YouTube video the other day, very spot on if I do say so. It immediately got a bunch of upvotes, then that stopped completely. My comment was on top still, but that's just how YouTube displays your own comments.

But when checking the video without logging in to YouTube, my comment was gone.

So it looks like comments can be quietly deleted without the commenter even knowing it.

THAT is censorship.

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Re:Microsoft deletes all comments under heavily criticized W... by drran on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @04:39AM (#28058681)
This is so-called "hell ban", "shadow ban", "ghost commenting" and it is heavily used by Hacker News admins here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banning

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Re:Microsoft deletes all comments under heavily criticized W... by lloydatkinson on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @06:57AM (#28059554)
Seems about right for HN mods
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Re:Microsoft deletes all comments under heavily criticized W... by valtism on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @07:18AM (#28059677)
And thank god for that. This community is definitely held together by the hard work and judicial moderation of those few.
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Re:Microsoft deletes all comments under heavily criticized W... by lloydatkinson on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @12:58PM (#28063404)
If you count indiscriminate censorship and bias a good thing then I suppose
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Re:Microsoft deletes all comments under heavily criticized W... by TheAdamAndChe on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @01:49PM (#28064009)
The censorship isn't indiscriminate, it actually discriminates against and suppresses users who trend towards flamebait. Without careful moderation, this site would quickly turn into a worse version of Reddit.
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