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Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019) by rosmax_1337 on Saturday July 29, 2023 @06:42AM (#36918857)
I agree that facebook is a great example of tech being dangerous for society, but that it's an example of a blatantly politically correct censorship platform, besides the problems regarding mental/social health caused by using it.

The largest problems tech faces nowadays is not spreading fake news at the speed of light, but the suppression of real and necessary political discourse in what has arguably been a significant portion the new town square for the last century.

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Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019) by Eisenstein on Saturday July 29, 2023 @09:25AM (#36920071)
You think we need more political discourse in our lives? It seems to me that political discourse on social media is mostly limited to 'I'm pissed off that people don't agree with me and refuse to listen to them to understand why'. That doesn't seem helpful.
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