bra-ket

I've seen the phrase 'threat to democracy' thrown around this week to justify silencing voices. If you're afraid of what someone who thinks differently will vote for, then maybe democracy itself is the problem.

Facebook, Twitter and Google are monopolies. They carry different weight than simply private corporations, and with great power comes great responsibility.

I think it's a blatant free speech violation. As long as Big Tech have monopolistic power they would serve as tools of political censorship.

Don’t allow ideological posts then alltogether, otherwise you can only expect flame wars, endless flagging, and more work for you.

I’d be happy not to see politics on HN, but I’m not going to remain quiet when I see one-sided political argument here just like on Reddit.

That's a tough job to be a mod, for sure, but there is also a thing called free speech which grants even lunatics like the scientologists, freedom of, you know, speech. And it doesn't mean 'free speech you agree with'.

What happens now is that Capitol protest is used as an excuse to exclude half of the country in the conversation before the inauguration (and most likely after), silence their voice, the voice of opposition.

And that doesn't smell kosher to me, to 75M people who voted with me, and thankfully many on the left, the classic liberals.

I don't think it's good for the country to derail to this level of totalitarian censorship, even temporary, no matter what yours or mine political beliefs are.

> But I'm fine with supporting this temporarily, at least through the inauguration

sounds like 'just a little bit of fascism, it won't even hurt'.