Or more likely than seeing them as "dangerous" they recognize that if you allow opinions to be expressed, others may gain a new perspective by reading it or even adopt that opinion themselves.
Or in the case of HN, certain topics of conversation are censored or discouraged because they tend to lead to boring/repetitive/annoying/aggressive comment threads.
Of course, we usually call this "moderation" instead of "censorship", but it's mostly the same, except it isn't done by a government.
So the quality of any forum just comes down to the quality of the moderation. Good moderators keep out the off-topic crap and general nastiness, shitty moderators ban people for saying they don't like the company's new game.
Side note honest question, do you think your comment falls under flaming and should be flagged? What you’re basically baiting me here. Wouldn’t this last bit be a direct way that leads to exchanging insults between each other? I don’t know what’s your intended point behind it, but it certainly could be interpreted this way imo.
Regardless, I think there’s for the least possible amount of moderation based on subjective opinions. If you want to have a constructive discussion about Covid response, you have to listen to all opinions and have them openly discussed for example.
There are hundreds of times that comments about mask mandates for example that get flagged, just because people disagree with the CDC. Eventually now we see it more openly discussed (1) after a few years, but still some politically motivated people think it’s a topic deserving censorship.
1: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/opinion/do-mask-mandates-...
Have a nice day!
I'm not anti-vax at all! What did I say that made you think so?
> So again, go fuck yourself, troll.
I'm not trolling at all. And you're breaking multiple HN guidelines in your last three replies: name-calling, dismissiveness, snark, and you're definitely not maintaining a respectful tone.
Maybe you're the one that needs to be hanging around on 8chan?
Commenters here need to stick to the rules regardless of how right they are or feel they are. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email [email protected] and give us reason to believe that you'll use the site as intended in the future.
Unfortunately people have convinced themselves that some opinions -those they disagree with- are dangerous for others to read. From cancelling your preorder for a game after a beta to “let’s think twice about pharmaceutical companies’ motives, there will be someone who thinks your motives are unclean, you’re an agitator, or full on evil, and therefor deserve to be silenced.