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Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok block democratic hashtags

37 points by arn3n ↗ HN
Tags “#democrat”, “#joebiden”, and #kamalaharris” have had all content blocked and removed.

Is anyone else seeing this?

19 comments

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vladms
And HN seems to flag the topic, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42777938
alismayilov
But how does this violates HN policies?
vachina
Probably wants to avoid incendiary content (that attracts low quality discourse)
timeon
It is usually user-based flagging. There is nothing rational about that. I've been in both (flagging/flagged) situations.
weberer
Users flag stories, not the mods. If you have enough points, you van "vouch" for a comment. I don't know if it works at the story level. I don't see that option at least.
slau
I seem to remember being able to vouch for stories. Maybe the karma limits have changed? Or it is also very possible I only remember being able to vouch for comments and confusing the two.
chomp
You can only vouch if the story is flagged and dead
beardyw
People flag stuff. I think HN moderators may or may not remove.
beardyw
I think it's one of the things you get at over 500 karma.
p2detar
Is this a good time to remind people to join Mastodon? I was pleasantly surprised that there is in fact a very well sized community across Mastodon instances.
weberer
Its very similar to what we've been seeing over the past 8 or so years. The only difference is that the shoe is now on the other foot. I wonder if we're going to see the usual echo chambers (reddit, etc) reverse polarity in the coming year.
polotics
Are you sure? I dont' remember the equivalent terms being blocked before.
clowd
While we're talking about stuff that didn't happen, I'm sure glad the Steelers are headed to the Super Bowl.
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DataDaemon
aaaah.... here we go again. Left, Right, Left, Right.