>We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle and ignoring our request to stop. Stop making things up. What ideological battle? Why aren't you banning the pro-censorship side? > That's not…
> That's a slippery slope argument that I personally don't believe. It's not a matter of belief. It's happened time and time again. One prominent example is hitler and nazi germany. When they gained power, they used the…
> This is an extremely frightening statement to me. It truly is to me as well. It's something you expect nazis to say. Imagine if the comment was "The idea that I'm seeing any of these comments arguing to the contrary…
Absolutely. How is this any different than germans throwing chinese tourists in jail for making nazi salutes? Or saudis throwing atheists in jail because they offended their faith. Or russians throwing lgbt people in…
> Hint: Neo Nazis wish to return to the good old days of 1939 or so where Jews and people of color are either dead, outcast, deported, enslaved or stuck in camps while white men rule the land as is their god given…
Germany arrested chinese tourists for making nazi salute. Should we do something about germany too? Do chinese and germans deserve free speech too or just thais? Edit: @0xfeba > That argument is convincing only on the…
This is why I despise censorship and control. Even against people like daily stormers and neo-nazis. Chinese tourists gets arrested for making silly nazi salutes. Everyone celebrates it because that's german law. This…
We are going to have to have regulation to reign in these companies. FB, GOOG, MSFT, etc all serve billions of people. FB's network has a 1 people more than china. The pro-censorship crowd wants to distract with…
Everything you wrote is why we have freedom of speech protection. > But more abstractly and insidiously, the value has mutated to give license to liars and manipulators of all kinds. It never mutated. The point of free…
> and to be an unwilling vehicle for the Neo Nazi movement is something that no company should want to aspire to. Does that also apply to pornography? What about atheism? What about lgbt content? The concerted effort by…
As they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I can't believe this is what social media and the tech industry has become. And I can't believe there are people actually supporting this kind of censorship.…
> That said, I think crossing this content line for an infrastructure company is a big deal, and I hope it's not repeated. It's an incredibly terrible move. Such an arbitrary and biased move. What has happened in the…
So-called judges once ruled that blacks were property rather than human. We have a long history of "so-called judged". Go read about what lincoln felt about judges.
His daughter is jewish and his son in law is jewish, so that must mean he hitler.
Wasn't there a study that said CEOs tend to be overrepresented in the sociopathetic personality? CEOs of large corporations have no problem doing business with china or israel or russia or any other questionable…
Is there a reason for the love that some on HN have for Matt Levine? Seems like every finance related topic brings up matt levine. > Matt Levine says it best: Is that the really best?
It is insane that we are allowing GoDaddy, Google and tech companies to be arbiters of free speech. As a kid, I used to associate google, yahoo and the whole of internet as a bastion of freedom. It is shocking to me…
Isn't a ycombinator blog dedicated solely for women sexist. Isn't "Ask a Female Engineer" sexist? If ycombinator only had "Ask a Male Engineer" wouldn't they be attacked for it?
> There is real harm done if women who work at a company don't feel they are welcome there. Using that logic, should every male feel unwelcomed because of the pro-female activity at google and in corporate america?…
> Here's the thing: for men being decent requires effort Wow. That's blatant sexist bigotry. Can you imagine if someone said the same thing about women and what the reaction on HN would be?
My uncle was diagnosed with cancer last july and died 3 months later. Left behind a wife and two kids. The holidays was rather depressing last year. He was an athlete who ran in marathons. Never smoked or drank. But…
> I'm still surprised more companies aren't doing it. Almost every major company has been doing it for many years. Especially large companies with tons of cash overseas. Instead of repatriating cash from overseas and…
Why is it that every article about china reads like a propaganda piece. "World domination"? Was our investment in AI about "world domination" also? It is strange how propaganda spins the narrative about the same thing…
> I believe this program is a good complementary source of knowledge to become a better software developer. That's something you could learn on your own. But your knowledge of "technologies" are more valuable to…
> Unfortunately, this is a pretty standard fluff piece with not much information. Imagine if you had to write articles everyday to earn your paycheck. Whether it is bloomberg or daily youtube vloggers, they have to put…
>We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle and ignoring our request to stop. Stop making things up. What ideological battle? Why aren't you banning the pro-censorship side? > That's not…
> That's a slippery slope argument that I personally don't believe. It's not a matter of belief. It's happened time and time again. One prominent example is hitler and nazi germany. When they gained power, they used the…
> This is an extremely frightening statement to me. It truly is to me as well. It's something you expect nazis to say. Imagine if the comment was "The idea that I'm seeing any of these comments arguing to the contrary…
Absolutely. How is this any different than germans throwing chinese tourists in jail for making nazi salutes? Or saudis throwing atheists in jail because they offended their faith. Or russians throwing lgbt people in…
> Hint: Neo Nazis wish to return to the good old days of 1939 or so where Jews and people of color are either dead, outcast, deported, enslaved or stuck in camps while white men rule the land as is their god given…
Germany arrested chinese tourists for making nazi salute. Should we do something about germany too? Do chinese and germans deserve free speech too or just thais? Edit: @0xfeba > That argument is convincing only on the…
This is why I despise censorship and control. Even against people like daily stormers and neo-nazis. Chinese tourists gets arrested for making silly nazi salutes. Everyone celebrates it because that's german law. This…
We are going to have to have regulation to reign in these companies. FB, GOOG, MSFT, etc all serve billions of people. FB's network has a 1 people more than china. The pro-censorship crowd wants to distract with…
Everything you wrote is why we have freedom of speech protection. > But more abstractly and insidiously, the value has mutated to give license to liars and manipulators of all kinds. It never mutated. The point of free…
> and to be an unwilling vehicle for the Neo Nazi movement is something that no company should want to aspire to. Does that also apply to pornography? What about atheism? What about lgbt content? The concerted effort by…
As they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I can't believe this is what social media and the tech industry has become. And I can't believe there are people actually supporting this kind of censorship.…
> That said, I think crossing this content line for an infrastructure company is a big deal, and I hope it's not repeated. It's an incredibly terrible move. Such an arbitrary and biased move. What has happened in the…
So-called judges once ruled that blacks were property rather than human. We have a long history of "so-called judged". Go read about what lincoln felt about judges.
His daughter is jewish and his son in law is jewish, so that must mean he hitler.
Wasn't there a study that said CEOs tend to be overrepresented in the sociopathetic personality? CEOs of large corporations have no problem doing business with china or israel or russia or any other questionable…
Is there a reason for the love that some on HN have for Matt Levine? Seems like every finance related topic brings up matt levine. > Matt Levine says it best: Is that the really best?
It is insane that we are allowing GoDaddy, Google and tech companies to be arbiters of free speech. As a kid, I used to associate google, yahoo and the whole of internet as a bastion of freedom. It is shocking to me…
Isn't a ycombinator blog dedicated solely for women sexist. Isn't "Ask a Female Engineer" sexist? If ycombinator only had "Ask a Male Engineer" wouldn't they be attacked for it?
> There is real harm done if women who work at a company don't feel they are welcome there. Using that logic, should every male feel unwelcomed because of the pro-female activity at google and in corporate america?…
> Here's the thing: for men being decent requires effort Wow. That's blatant sexist bigotry. Can you imagine if someone said the same thing about women and what the reaction on HN would be?
My uncle was diagnosed with cancer last july and died 3 months later. Left behind a wife and two kids. The holidays was rather depressing last year. He was an athlete who ran in marathons. Never smoked or drank. But…
> I'm still surprised more companies aren't doing it. Almost every major company has been doing it for many years. Especially large companies with tons of cash overseas. Instead of repatriating cash from overseas and…
Why is it that every article about china reads like a propaganda piece. "World domination"? Was our investment in AI about "world domination" also? It is strange how propaganda spins the narrative about the same thing…
> I believe this program is a good complementary source of knowledge to become a better software developer. That's something you could learn on your own. But your knowledge of "technologies" are more valuable to…
> Unfortunately, this is a pretty standard fluff piece with not much information. Imagine if you had to write articles everyday to earn your paycheck. Whether it is bloomberg or daily youtube vloggers, they have to put…