In Canada, groups weaponizing claims of media bias are being used to intimidate journalists and reshape coverage of Israel and Palestine under the quiet complicity of Canadian newsrooms
You can feel this in other sites. For example, in Y Combinator’s Hacker News, most posts about the Palestinian genocide get flagged within minutes.
There’s no mad people there commenting that Israel is the people of God, because the discourse there is much more mature than most social aggregators, so the flagging is the only sign some people are watching and “sanitizing” these topics.
It’s obvious in HN because of the wide range of obscure topics (eg installing scaffolding on old British smoke stacks) that occasionally arise to the front page, all the ones on that topic are quickly flagged to oblivion.
You don’t have to be a genius to see the pattern 🤷♀️
in Y Combinator’s Hacker News, most posts about the Palestinian genocide get flagged within minutes
It’s a programming/technology forum. It’s very off-topic and I expect that kind of subject to stay away from it. The bane of the modern internet is newbies posting random stuff all over the place without RTFM and without lurking more.
And right now the top ten has 7 tech links, one article about mediocre scientists advancing science, one about a very old car, and one about the Texas Stock Exchange.
All these are on-topic and actually encouraged in HN.
Listen MacFlaggy, how about you read the site’s guidelines before making such sweeping statements?
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On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one’s intellectual curiosity.
I don’t give a fuck about politics or nazi regimes. Politics are off-topic on tech forums. You’re deluded if you think that’s my argument.
The internet is filled with noobs who think their opinion on any subject is worth spamming every forum since the 90s and that’s annoying. We already had that on newsgroups in the beginning. You’re not worth it. Eternal September and stuff…
The ADL nazis knows how to trigger people like you wherever you are. They are the 4chan of the politics and it works. If we banned them everywhere, their job would be useless. By arguing and downvoting me, you proved them right. Keep on talking about them if it suits you.
You can feel this in other sites. For example, in Y Combinator’s Hacker News, most posts about the Palestinian genocide get flagged within minutes.
There’s no mad people there commenting that Israel is the people of God, because the discourse there is much more mature than most social aggregators, so the flagging is the only sign some people are watching and “sanitizing” these topics.
It’s obvious in HN because of the wide range of obscure topics (eg installing scaffolding on old British smoke stacks) that occasionally arise to the front page, all the ones on that topic are quickly flagged to oblivion.
You don’t have to be a genius to see the pattern 🤷♀️
Bloody interesting. Why would a tech/cs centered forum do that?
See the rest of the replies to my comment: HN is not only about tech and startups, and it’s influential enough to warrant manipulation.
It’s a programming/technology forum. It’s very off-topic and I expect that kind of subject to stay away from it. The bane of the modern internet is newbies posting random stuff all over the place without RTFM and without lurking more.
It allows world news too, since not all hackers are laser-focused in technology, and it’s normal to be interested in how the real world goes.
Still off-topic and should be flagged accordingly.
Front page has a link to the Ikea catalogue from 1951 to 2021.
And right now the top ten has 7 tech links, one article about mediocre scientists advancing science, one about a very old car, and one about the Texas Stock Exchange.
All these are on-topic and actually encouraged in HN.
Listen MacFlaggy, how about you read the site’s guidelines before making such sweeping statements?
It’s not off topic when they use Microsoft AI to genocide people
Let’s invade !cooking because they use knives that can kill Palestinians somehow. It’s dangerous.
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lmao
What an idiotic comparison
Are you by any chance related to Israel in any way?
I don’t give a fuck about politics or nazi regimes. Politics are off-topic on tech forums. You’re deluded if you think that’s my argument.
The internet is filled with noobs who think their opinion on any subject is worth spamming every forum since the 90s and that’s annoying. We already had that on newsgroups in the beginning. You’re not worth it. Eternal September and stuff…
The ADL nazis knows how to trigger people like you wherever you are. They are the 4chan of the politics and it works. If we banned them everywhere, their job would be useless. By arguing and downvoting me, you proved them right. Keep on talking about them if it suits you.
You should go outside and get some fresh air. Life is not happening in your mother’s basement.