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mindslight • today at 4:53 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I wholly agree with where you're coming from, but I don't see how it's connected to the original article.

If you think the censorship is the problem, then how does what you're saying address that?

If you think the frustration with the censorship is the problem (ie part of the outrage farming), then I suppose what you're saying is a solution in a roundabout way. But trying to fix a small problem by casting it as one aspect of a much larger problem seems self-defeating.


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flir • today at 8:46 PM

Gotcha. Not a direct solution - an attempt to get to a place where some of the norms have been resurrected. There was a point in my lifetime when CEOs didn't do Nazi salutes, even if they were a bit Henry Ford on the inside. I'd like to get back there, and I think it would restrain some of the worst excesses we see today.

Now you've forced me to lay it out like that, I don't even believe it myself.

We're really screwed, aren't we?