[hereforphone]

We don't ban books anymore. We ban tweets, or Facebook posts, or other social media contributions. The drive to censor remains.

[A4ET8a8uTh0]

It is going to sound sad, but that is because reading books is not a mainstream time sink. Now, FB and Twitter? So many things to get upset about in real time.

[avereveard]

we do worse than that nowadays, instead of censoring the offending text we censor the person whole

[rataata_jr]

Slightly different. Blasphemers used to be executed back then, now you lose your job, ability to bank, go out in public etc. Slight improvement?

[hereforphone]

Blasphemers are still executed, it's just politically incorrect to criticize the countries it happens in.

[pstuart]

It's at the discretion of the platform. Why don't you test the limits of HN? At a certain point you will be "censored" here.

And if that happens is it because dang hate's your freedom or you've pushed the limits of tolerable behavior?

[hereforphone]

Pushing the "limits of tolerable behavior" are why the books were band as well.

[pstuart]

There's a vast difference between acceptable behavior for guests and making something illegal.

HN is a forum where we are the guests of pg, dang, et al. They have rules for behavior -- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Not abiding by these rules can get you banned. Are you going to complain about that? Are your rights being trampled on?

edit: p.s., it's "banned", not "band"