That's not even close to true. The opposite is closer to true.

You may be falling prey to the notice-dislike bias (you're more likely to notice and put weight on the things you dislike), which leads to false feelings of generality.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Your comment broke the site guidelines badly. Please read the rules and follow them when posting to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I can assure you with high confidence—since I'm the person making these calls—that this has nothing to do with how we moderate HN.

I mean, it's possible that you know more about my unconscious than I do - but I think the odds are low. I'm pretty sure we're just trying to have an internet forum that doesn't suck and don't give a shit about the "globalist game".

Re "I don't doubt that there are bots or Chinese nationals that also downvote/flag these posts as well" - would you mind reviewing the site guidelines, which specifically ask you not to post like that?

Interesting. You don't actually refute any of his arguments.

What arguments? I didn't see any. But perhaps the following will help:

> HN (Y Combinator) has an incentive to curb posts that could potentially make China angry.

We have no such incentive and people post such things all the time (if by China you mean the Chinese government).

> Being a forefront Silicon Valley investment company, they have to play the globalist game.

Short answer: no we don't. Longer answer: whatever "globalist game" means, I've never encountered the slightest reference to this kind of thing in the years I've worked for YC.

> Therefore, I suspect there may be policies in place, whether spoken or unspoken to suppress these types of posts.

There are no such policies, as anyone can easily see for themselves by looking through what actually gets posted here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

> I don't doubt that there are bots or Chinese nationals that also downvote/flag these posts as well.

As explained above, it's against the site guidelines to post like this when you have zero evidence. This is an important rule, for reasons I've explained many times over many years:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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I believe that covers everything. Better?