Hmm. This was on the front page, generating lots of discussion. Now it’s hidden. What’s up HN? How is this not a relevant article here?

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roadside_picnic 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

HN is heavily biased towards silencing any content that makes any subset of its readership uncomfortable. This policy exists under the mistaken (I hope) assumption that silence is not fundamentally biased, which is usually not the case.

Posts about climate change, Israel/Palestine, uncomfortable concerns about the state of the industry etc will very often disappear quickly once they hit the home page.

Of course silence about climate change is beneficial for those contributing the most to it, silence about Israel/Palestine is very beneficial to Israel, and clearly silence about lack of concern for child safety by major tech companies benefits those companies.

	▲	zahlman 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> HN is heavily biased towards silencing any content that ... violates the guidelines, in particular: > Be kind. Don't be snarky. > Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. > Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. > Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity. > Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
	▲	beeflet 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The real-world conditions are beneficial to israel. I don't think yapping about it will resolve the conflict any more than it did for tibet. What more can be said about the matter? Some pro-palestine organization will accuse Israel of genocide, and Israelis will continue bulldozing inch by inch. As for "uncomfortable concerns about the state of the industry", those are on the front page and top of /active regularly

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zahlman 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm seeing it on the front page now, with 300+ comments.

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parasubvert 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

it usually devolves into a mess of a comments section because it's about freedom vs. control / moral panic vs. apathy.

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AznHisoka 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think they have some of algorithm that pushes down articles with too high a comment/upvote ratio

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