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Re:Supreme Court Poised to Reconsider Key Tenets of Online S... by henryfjordan on Thursday January 19, 2023 @11:37AM (#34442230)
HNs algorithm is driven directly by UGC (upvotes) and basic math. You could argue that HN should get 230 protection because the front page is decided by the users.

YouTube uses some algorithm that has all kinds of levers that YouTube controls, not the users.

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Re:Supreme Court Poised to Reconsider Key Tenets of Online S... by amadeuspagel on Thursday January 19, 2023 @12:11PM (#34442759)
HN downweights certain topics. Dang is quite open about this[1]. This is a kind of content moderation, which is what section 230 was written to protect. If removing posts is legitimate, downweighting them must be as well.

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

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Re:Supreme Court Poised to Reconsider Key Tenets of Online S... by dredmorbius on Thursday January 19, 2023 @11:59PM (#34449443)
Some websites / domains also carry a penalty. This can be overcome with votes and comment activity, or removed by mod action on a given post (which can be requested by emailing mods if you suspect it's the case).

See, e.g., <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10448419> & <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23929687>

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Re:Supreme Court Poised to Reconsider Key Tenets of Online S... by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Thursday January 19, 2023 @12:59PM (#34443363)
Dang deletes posts that are not in the spirit of HN. That is editorializing.
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