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As someone who was shadow banned, I left twitter, youtube, and facebook.
The few times I expressed my opinion in a peaceful way, got called probably every name you can think of, and then saw my twitter account suspended. I was told by twitter support I was engaging in "targeted harassment", asked for proof, did not hear back from support. The twee they referred to is a reply to someone wishing me to die from terminal disease, to which I responded "Bless your heart", and apparently that person reported me for that. After one month of being shadow banned, which for some reason spilled to youtube and facebook, I closed all accounts. I can understand why conservatives feel that way. They are the only group getting things like this thrown at them, and I am an independent, who happened to disagree on calls to censor one side over the other, seen first hand what that gets you into. I have seen reports of gab.ai being popular and truly for free speech, but did not use them, lost interest in social media altogether, and to be honest, my productivity went up after that.
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HN has every right to have community standards. A post such as "Another socialist utopia collapsing? Shocked, shocked I tell you." doesn't add anything to the conversation.
If you look at some of my recent posts where I argue against the government interfering in tech, I'm definitely not pro big government by any means. So I'm not commenting on your opinion just your tone.
I've seen some of my pro-capitalist posts go back and forth between downvotes and upvotes, but I would like to think that I had reasonable arguments that added to the discussion.