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The main social media sites are getting more censored every day

11 points| moribondus | 9 years ago | reply

The most censored subject is obviously the subject of censorship itself. The reader does not know that the list he sees in front of him has been censored. They are not open about this. They effectively hide this information from the reader. Since most readers do not submit anything, they are not aware of this. It creates a curated world in which they believe that they know what other people think. This is a wrong belief, because all other opinions have just been filtered away.

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[+] VOYD|9 years ago|reply
you expected truly free discourse? That doesn't happen anywhere, except maybe amongst friends & family.
[+] mrcold|9 years ago|reply
Hacker News does it too.

Narratives and echo chambers everywhere. Welcome to the future.

[+] dang|9 years ago|reply
If you're going to accuse us of doing something bad, please state clearly what "it" is and give specific links so we can look into what happened.
[+] moribondus|9 years ago|reply
Yes. You would expect that only sites like facebook would do that. It seriously discredits Paul Graham and Y-Combinator. After dealing with Hacker News, who would ever want to trade with anything Paul Graham is involved with?