[thewhitetulip]

lol

I googled "whatsapp admin arrested Modi NSA"

And guess which link came first?

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology-44925166

Article says

> student has spent five months in an Indian jail over a WhatsApp message he says he did not send.

> Local reports say the 21-year-old man was charged with sedition because of "objectionable" content, although it is not clear what the message said.

I rest my case.

[dang]

We ban accounts that do flamewar on HN. Please don't get involved in arguments like this on HN again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[thewhitetulip]

Hey, sorry. My previous response was very rude. I immediately updated it to the current one. Does this also constitute under flamewar? (If so, I'm sorry)

[dang]

It's not as bad. But it's still unnecessarily argumentative. A better spirit to post in is expressed in this old line of pg's: Comments should be written in the spirit of colleagues cooperating in good faith to figure out the truth about something, not politicians trying to ridicule and misrepresent the other side.

Try to find a point of connection between you and the person you're talking to. You don't need to say what it is explicitly; you just need to find it and feel it. Do that, and flamewar will magically be transformed into conversation.