[monster99]

Article is a load of cobblers. The mods tend to be no different then milquetoast centrists because most of them work in the corporate world.

HN is very america centric and anything that goes against "the american narrative" that america is great, the free market is great, usually gets downvoted pretty hard. To suggest HN is a dispassionate place is quite the bit of nonsense. HN has it's mod and user hivemind because it pretends to be rational when it isn't.

Take the topic of software ownership and the mass invasion of privacy, or the theft of game software over the last 20 years by corporate america. The rise of steam, server locked software and invasive privacy invading games and apps which are specifically coded against users controlling them.

Or the fact that the public domain has been destroyed and america has been a place of total corporate lawlessnes for the last two centuries, if one is going to go by scientific evidence, the rule of law does not exist in capitalist societies. You have one class that's completely above the law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#/...

[brokenmachine]

I regularly see hn comments talking about all the stuff you mentioned.

A small number of them get downvoted, but the more well-expressed the idea, the less likely it is to get downvoted.

Of course muricans gonna murica, but hn is 1000x better than reddit in that regard, and has very reasonable moderation.