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It was even here in HN a community of pretty normal people. Remember the discussions of Sweden’s approach to lockdowns? Any mention of it and you were shouted down and blood was surely going to run in the streets of Sweden by dawn the next day. I lost a lot of faith in the HN community then.

The pandemic and the compliance and the us vs. them mentality really opened by eyes. It’s how terrible things happen, people will just do what their told by some perceived authority no matter what.



One particular big name commenter here was still defending mass firings under the OSHA mandate in late 2022 / early 2023.


People disagreeing with you is not censorship.


HN, to it's credit, at least permitted dissent without systematic bans for going against whatever was the officially blessed narrative of the day.


How would you know that? My account was banned.


I dissented regularly and vehemently and was not banned on HN.


It does however downvotes start to gray out comments and HN is still prone to brigading.


I don't see how that points to presence of systematic bans.


I didn’t say anything about bans.




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