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The main social media sites are getting more censored every day

11 points by moribondus ↗ HN
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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mrcold
Hacker News does it too.

Narratives and echo chambers everywhere. Welcome to the future.

moribondus
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?
mrcold
Looks like people don't like it when you criticize their idols. People forget Paul Graham is in the business of making money. Ethics and morality are not a prerequisite. They actually start getting in the way once you reach a certain level of fame.
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dang
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.
bbcbasic
I'm guessing here but it could simply be that any moderated forum is effectively censored, HN included.

In my experience almost all dead comments I've seen deserve to be dead.

Down votes are more hit and miss I find it depends on the crowd that are attracted to that topic. E.g. Microsoft submits seem to be biased as pro Microsoft etc. That may be where the echo chamber effect comes in.

VOYD
you expected truly free discourse? That doesn't happen anywhere, except maybe amongst friends & family.