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Cancel Culture in Hacker News

by heyheyhouhou on 10/28/23, 7:45 AM with 10 comments

Since the start of the conflict I've seen how hackernews moderators have been flagging, down-voting and removing from the front page links that are not aligned with the western propaganda.

I was very naive with this community. There is brilliant people and brilliant discussions, but we are all afraid to the repercussions.

Companies like Google, Meta, Amazon, Stripe, Intel, Siemens, Sequoia Capital boycotting Web summit for a more than a reasonable post of the "resigned CEO" saying "war crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies" shows the hypocrisy of these companies.

We keep improving the technology but we are loosing all the humanity.

I'm very sad and hopeless

  • by throwawaysleep on 10/28/23, 7:50 AM

    I assume you are talking about the current conflict in the Middle East. That is generally off topic per the guidelines.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

    > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

    Israel vs Palestine is an old conflict with few updates but troop movements and body counts.

  • by wrp on 10/28/23, 11:07 AM

    HN is nice as a place to have (sometimes) well-informed and moderated discussions about technical things. It would be great to have an equivalent forum for political subjects, but it doesn't exist and probably can't. I'm afraid HN is only hurt by trying to bring it here.

    That said, HN is uneven in its treatment of political topics. Some pretty toxic posting is allowed if it follows certain lines while other things can be flagged for just a whiff of going against the grain.

  • by ta_vf7xjd34cc on 10/28/23, 8:52 AM

    > I'm very sad and hopeless

    Well, the entire Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh was driven out of the region by Azerbaijan as the world watched in utter silence.

    These things happen.

    Morality and ethics are purely theoretical constructs that are meant to be used against your opponent in order to get them to back down. At least that is how they are normally employed in the real world.

  • by JohnFen on 10/28/23, 3:19 PM

    HN isn't the appropriate forum for political discussions (at least ones that aren't tech-focused). That's a good thing. We should have a place where we can just talk about tech issues. There's no shortage of other fora where political discussions and arguments are welcomed.