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- You still have the right to speak.
You don't have the right to an audience.
- And who gets to decide?
- There's no decision to be made. It's a right you don't have.
The decision is where people put their attention. It could be anywhere. Statistically speaking, it won't be you.
- The end user. That's the only way it's not censorship in practice
- the people moderating the platform that you signed up to post on?
what do you mean?
- See my comment below. On HN for example it isn’t necessarily the moderators, it’s the users with downvote power who can influence what everyone else sees.
So the elite users are the ones who choose. Funny how our communities mirror the social structures we supposedly hate.
- The site owners chose to implement it that way. That's their right. If you don't like it you can go elsewhere.
- sure but to other users that's a feature and part of why they're here
it's like going to a cafe and complaining that everyone is drinking coffee
- “Elite users”? I don’t think that avoiding being an assclown long enough to collect 500 points to downvote status is a high bar to clear.
- And? Go somewhere else. I get elite-downvoted semi-regularly but that’s all in the game. You knew the rules when you came here.
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- We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the guidelines and ignoring our requests to stop. We want this to be a place where we can discuss difficult topics, but it has to be done respectfully. We obviously can't allow calling people names like this.
If you don't want to be banned, you can email us at hn@ycombinator.com and indicate you intend to improve your style of participation.
- I have a right to my own eyes and ears. It's not censorship to block trolls that I don't like.
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- No its the Algorithms of the platforms that decide to treat the signal of the downvote as an indicator they ought to hide/censorship that information for the quality of the information garden whether it be for ad revenue or eudaimonia
- And yet I bet you leave your spam filter on instead of explaining to the spam what's wrong with it.
- I think the way blocking gets used and then bragged about to the personal bubble on BS (I wouldn't know about Twitter) is kind of pathetic, but at the same time, I do not mind getting blocked, or put on any of those shitlists, because that leaves me with the people who are either insane, kinda cool, or both.
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- He is bragging about being blocked. Most likely he is also part of the fire hose of abuse.
- Like it takes anything, at all, to get labeleled mutually exclusive types of non-person by randos on social media. Sure.
You're kinda demonstrating it. I wasn't "bragging about being blocked", I said what I actually did say instead; but that's enough for you it seems. But even as you're doing it, I'm somehow a bad person for pointing out how lame it is. Nah.
- Large surveys and platform studies show that women, especially younger women, and racial/ethnic minorities are disproportionately targeted, with particularly high rates for Black women and other women of color on Twitter/X-like platforms.
On Twitter, Amnesty International found that Black women were 84% more likely than white women to be mentioned in abusive or problematic tweets, and women of color were 34% more likely than white women to be targeted.
Pew found that women are more likely than men to say they have experienced certain severe forms of online harassment, especially sexual harassment and stalking, and that younger women are the most vulnerable group.
Online abuse is widespread, but it is not evenly distributed; it falls more heavily on women, especially women of color, and on other marginalized groups.
You're out of your element, dude. I'm sure you know tons about Clojure, or cap tables, but you're spouting off unfounded bullshit in a field you haven't bothered to study. You're perpetuating a dangerously unrealistic mythology.
- you must be fun at parties
- You must not have empathy
- Everyone please chill
- Why?
