[itsanaccount]

Maybe because the average understanding of how our society is run, with things like morals, fairness and hope for the future, and the legal understanding of how our society is run has diverged.

And maybe people are getting sick and tired (and banned and flagged) of "good natured discourse" being entirely windowed by the latter.

[johnnyanmac]

It's arguably always been like that. The Internet's audience (on average) has simply grown up to an age where they start to care about that more.

>maybe people are getting sick and tired (and banned and flagged) of "good natured discourse" being entirely windowed by the latter.

I know it feels cathartic, but "record company bad" is neither discourse, nor particularly good natured. It's more reflective of how forums have shifted by twitter's popularity into being "microblogs". You don't really talk "to" people on Twitter, you throw out your tweet among a sea of tweets.

A shame, because I hate twitter precisely because of that.

[throw10920]

dang does a pretty good job of not banning people who are avoiding breaking the HN guidelines, and most of flagged content is political stuff not appropriate for HN.

HN is not an activism platform.