Your comment here is a noticeable step further into flamewar. Can you please not do that on HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Most of the stories point to this August 29th tweet:

https://twitter.com/DaphneDorman/status/1166937728681791488

Maybe that dragged on, maybe there’s some private messages he heard about which aren’t public but the main point was simply that it seems like a politically convenient stretch to state with certainty that the blame goes entirely to an undefined “mob” rather than any of the other factors her friends and family acknowledge. I don’t love mob tactics but to be honest that read more like an an attempt to stir up a reactionary mob rather than calm things down.

If you look at Daphne’s “tweets and replies” you can see responses to entire threads that have been removed/deleted, many from suspended accounts.

Your account has unfortunately been using HN primarily for ideological battle. We ban such accounts, regardless of what they're battling for or against, because this is destructive of the curious conversation HN is supposed to be for.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email [email protected] and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

How do you know they didn’t watch it otherwise?

Similarly, if you think the context changes things that much, you could explain how, since it’s often not that simple.