[whatyoucantsay]

The story you linked above, with over 170 upvotes and less than a day old appears nowhere on the first 5 pages of HN.

It's hard to imagine HN suppressing any similar story from a similarly credible source about a million people being detained in any predominantly white or English-speaking country.

There's a lot of money for YC to make in China, but this is a million human lives. Please at least try to think about that.

(And yes, the story is certainly drawing flags from Chinese patriots and wumaodang alike)

[dang]

That doesn't reflect how HN is moderated at all. Your claim about who's flagging is equally made-up. Edit: the claim in your profile is also completely untrue.

In fact you have a long history of making things up about HN moderation, posting them, and continuing to repeat the false claims when corrected. You also have a long history of using HN for political battle about China. If you keep abusing the site this way, we're eventually going to ban you. Dramatic allegations about "censorship" and "suppression" don't immunize you against having to follow the rules like other users.

[whatyoucantsay]

Seeing good-faith comments which break no rules I'm aware of being flagged is truly disappointing.

It's your forum and if you choose rule by law rather than rule of law, I am powerless to improve the situation. In ten years time, if you remember any of this, I hope that you might have a new perspective this topic.

[dang]

Users flagged the comment. No moderator touched it.

It's time you stopped posting these tedious harangues, which baselessly insinuate corruption while sneakily pretending to be fair-minded ("cannot prove any wrong-doing of course").

[whatyoucantsay]

Nothing sneaky is involved. Like you and most people, I believe I am fair minded. There's no pretending involved, either.

It is very surprising users would have even seen a comment buried deep in an old thread within minutes, but it is possible and I'm inclined to believe you in this case (though the next most likely case is a 五毛党 vote brigade). Nothing in the comment was a violation of guidelines, nor was the previous comment at all what it was maligned as.

That said, it's now clear that the very attempt "to voice minority opinions I believe to be true" is counter to the goals of the forum. While they're ideas and issues where one voice has a relative chance of making a difference, they're also very likely to lead to flamewars. It's hard to let go of the human rights issues, especially those I've seen some of first hand, but it's not productive here.

I'd be lying if I said YC's recent moves weren't terrifying, but I'll give up on voicing it in this way.