I've comported myself quite well in this thread, and elsewhere.
Please don't generalize about people because they hold different opinions than you. Just because someone is a socialist does not make them a cudgel wielding censor, just like someone being a republican does not make them a fascist.
I've had many positive interactions with people in this thread I strongly disagree with.
I'd encourage you to be more open minded and not write off people so quickly.
>>Just because someone is a socialist does not make them a cudgel wielding censor
If you indulge me in a mental experiment. If there would be a person on HN with a nickname "nationalsocialismisok" and claiming him being a national socialist doesn't make him a jew(or other minority) hater. Would you believe them?
You're right, you have done pretty well here - I was taking your comment as a jumping off point for a more general theme, it wasn't meant to be a personal attack against you specifically.
"Just because someone is a socialist does not make them a cudgel wielding censor"
Although it's clearly a true statement in the technical sense - there are surely at least a few people like that - my bitter personal experience has been that people who self identify as socialists are nearly always cudgel wielding censors given half the chance. Are there any countries that both declare themselves to be socialist and yet have a truly free press, and free speech rights? Have there been in the past? I can't think of any. They always have strict state control of what people can say.
And so that was my point. You're shocked to see this on HN, and it's not because such stories don't get posted. They do. What happens is, almost always, they get immediately flagged to death. It's not some generalized anti-politics rule or anything to do with the underlying quality of the article either, there's a clear ideological bent to what makes it through.
