Edit: oh dear, it appears that the moderators of HN want to protect my sensitive eyes from reading a comment. Thank you for removing someone's opinion & perspective because if people read it, who know what harm will occur? Thank you for your infinite wisdom in enforcing righthink by flagging wrongthink.
Please downvote away because my desire to read someone's comment is obviously wrong & I must by punished for being wrong. Let us all sanitize the information space to cleanse the internet of all wrong perspectives. How dare anyone think, no less dare to express, wrong opinions. We can do this together! Manage me harder daddy! All hail INGSOC!
@dang...I have a feature request. Can we have a subdomain of HN which shows ALL content in the case where people like me want to read a comment which has been flagged? You can disallow web crawlers if you are concerned about polluting the information space. I'm interested in some comments which others are motivated to flag, because the bias of the flagger can mean they want to hide certain information. I'm not interested in others' moderation prerogatives. I'm interested in reading interesting comments.
the winning position in this is live and let be. there is no fixing this. last note on the subject, this mans daughter was recently blown up in front of him in Moscow. He wrote this in 1996:
"Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".
classic divide and conquer. who knows if russia is doing this, this seems like a directive any enemy would use to poison a larger enemy so that the enemy would shatter into a million factions once it was hit.