I've never heard of Hacker News censoring comments that do not abuse the site guidelines, with rational opinions. This comment thread is being heavily censored. This fundamentally abuses the trust that users have put into this site.
Your comment was deleted because you yourself deleted it. "Hacker News" hasn't been censoring anything.
Is it possible that you thought your comment was removed because in fact it was on one of the later pages of comments? That is simple pagination. I tried to tell people about this by pinning https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23853229 to the top of the first page.
My original comment was deleted, so I'll try this again.
I've read the comments here and quite surprisingly there are a lot of folks saying that the value of this hack isn't worth more than roughly one year's salary at Twitter (as an intern). I appreciate the pragmatism, but unlikely.
Anyone with this kind of exploit could have sold it, moved to Russia, and received immunity from extradition. Secondly, people should be scrutinizing any moron willing to give away thousands of dollars to billionaires for a promise of a 2x return. Especially in these times.
So, reason can only allow us to arrive at a most likely cause. That this was indeed an inside job. It was not about money. It was not a security flaw. But rather, it was simply a group of employees that were unhappy with Twitter allowing the federal government to investigate bad actors on the platform behind closed doors.
Has anyone replicated the issue described by the Twitter user? It's probably important to verify these kinds of claims before they get upvoted. This looks and feels like disinformation.
Personal opinion here. If you trace the funding of anything on the internet, you usually get to the bottom of things. Here is an article that was published on WIRED that traces those roots. https://www.wired.com/story/freedom-from-facebook-open-marke...
I think what the site says is basically true, but also I think it's vaguely disingenuous.
