Policing content isn't the same thing as stopping active damage to the internet. Even in the US where free speech is king, you can't go around slashing tires or taking down stop signs and say it's protected by the 1st amendment or something.

This is totally off topic and I apologize, but considering apparently you and I share very similar views on "social networking" and such, you would probably really love (or really hate) the show Black Mirror if you don't already. It does an excellent job of showing just how fucked up things can get when these things get out of hand.

Sooooo your source is gamergate/redpill bullshit propaganda. Okay. Have fun with that.

Just remove.

Says a lot about the general state of things when people on HN who speaks out against nazis now get downvoted into oblivion... sad world we live in.

Do you suppose "speaking out against the bad guys" excuses one from all other considerations?

You know what, you're right. We should look at ourselves first and learn to respect those in power before questioning their motives.

What kind of garbage title is this? Mods, please fix the title to make sense (or at least copy the article title)

There are multiple titles apparently. I just opened the article, and the <title> says "Marc Zuckerberg talks basic income after Alaska trip", but the <h1 class="title"> says "Mark Zuckerberg again defends government giving people free money", which is the current submission title. I guess that title A-B-tested better. :/

lumens != watts

Literally the first line in the article states the name of the company. Come on.

~hacker news "moderating"~ strikes again

Not only is he arguably violating Mechanical Turk's terms of service by simple asking people to sign up for this in the first place, he's even gaming MTurk itself by creating multiple Amazon accounts with pseudonyms and spamming the marketplace with requests. Cute, Mr. Forth, really, really cute.

Update: If you don't believe it, here's a screenshot straight from HIT Scraper, a Greasemonkey script MTurk workers often use to display job listings on Mechanical Turk in a more easily parsable fashion: http://imgur.com/DOAIuy3

Not sure how he pulled this one off, considering Amazon is now requiring a verified SSN or tax ID for requesters to purchase money to post HITs, but there you have it.

When was the screenshot taken? Once the cat was out of the bag about what he was doing, I'm sure many people decided to also try the same thing.

Maybe those HITs were posted by other people, recently?