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dtoma | 5 years ago

You're posting this on HN, a platform that has moderators and doesn't allow certain things to be said. So you implicitly agree that there is a trade-off between free speech and ability to live in a community.

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teddyh|5 years ago

“Yet you participate in society! Curious.”

— Mister Gotcha (https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/)

dtoma|5 years ago

Unlike the people in this comic, I'm actually making a point, which you seem to have missed: community, by necessity, doesn't work with absolute freedom. What matters is what we agree to compromise over and why we do so.

NDizzle|5 years ago

No, not really. I’ll put up with draconian and biased moderation to skim curated tech articles in the morning before I start my day. Don’t confuse that with how exist in society.