[president]

> Honestly, I wish I could delete at least half the comments here, including yours.

It sounds like if you had your way, you'd be quite the authoritarian. Do you hear yourself?

> The CCP is an authoritarian government. Yes. Is this being proposed in the US? No. Why all the whining and insane amount of pearl-clutching then?

Vaccine passports and mandated lockdown and vaccines without informed consent are bringing us closer to authoritarianism than we ever have before.

> Has the level of discourse really become that much worse on HN over the years?

So in response you create a meta post complaining about others complaining about authoritarianism?

[Revenant-15]

> It sounds like if you had your way, you'd be quite the authoritarian. Do you hear yourself?

So every forum that has mods to moderate the posts that are made is "authoritarian"? Do you listen to yourself? It's not authoritarian to ensure a certain level of quality or level of discourse. And what's going on in these comments does not meet any reasonable bar.