Flamebait like this will get you banned on HN. We don't care what you're flaming for or against; we care about HN threads not being set on fire, or sent into deeper circles of hell.
It's hilarious that in a thread full of people hating on companies for deplatforming people for their opinions, you are getting massively downvoted for voicing your own opinion.
Goes to show that no one really wants "free speech".
I think you’re confused as to what upvoting and downvoting are for. The voting system is design to lift up comments that provide value to the discussion, and hide comments that don’t. Someone being downvoted doesn’t mean everyone is disagreeing with them, or punishing them for their opinion, rather just recognizing that it doesn’t bring any value to the topic of conversation.
People who don't want free speech are usually the ones complaining about how other people exercise their free speech in ways that counter their own message.
Like voting on comments, for example. That's free speech too.
That said, HN is definitely not anything even remotely resembling a free speech platform, in concept or execution. It's the recruitment platform for Y Combinator, and all decisions are made here to optimize for that.
> Goes to show that no one really wants "free speech".
Especially not on HN, where the SV/SJW group think prevail.
Argument I often get is "you are free to voice your opinions and we are free to massively downvote you", well, same happened with 9/11, the US elites have been cunts to the whole world (including to "The People" and still are), they are totally free to be, by then 9/11 came as a big slap in Wall Street America face, maybe they deserved it...
It's a minority (on both sides of the political spectrum) that doesn't want free speech, but they're very vocal about it. It's fascism, regardless of who is doing it.
As long as the country and constitution remain in the "defend to the death your right to say it", we'll be fine.
Diversity of ideas and opinions should be celebrated.
dang|4 years ago
No more of this, please.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
paxys|4 years ago
Goes to show that no one really wants "free speech".
dang|4 years ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
sweetheart|4 years ago
unknown|4 years ago
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TameAntelope|4 years ago
Like voting on comments, for example. That's free speech too.
That said, HN is definitely not anything even remotely resembling a free speech platform, in concept or execution. It's the recruitment platform for Y Combinator, and all decisions are made here to optimize for that.
alacombe|4 years ago
Especially not on HN, where the SV/SJW group think prevail.
Argument I often get is "you are free to voice your opinions and we are free to massively downvote you", well, same happened with 9/11, the US elites have been cunts to the whole world (including to "The People" and still are), they are totally free to be, by then 9/11 came as a big slap in Wall Street America face, maybe they deserved it...
echelon|4 years ago
As long as the country and constitution remain in the "defend to the death your right to say it", we'll be fine.
Diversity of ideas and opinions should be celebrated.