[shayway]

It's worth pointing out that the post in question was made in the past half hour amidst the wave of activity from HN. Not to say your point isn't valid, but I think this is more an example of trolls who will say anything and everything to cause anger and insult; it's not representative of those who believe in free speech, or the site itself for that matter.

[averageRoyalty]

But that example has played out on every social media website, forum, etc once hitting critical mass. It's a bigger problem in society yes, but it's not just trolls. Trolls are the least harmful of the groups of people who will scream racial epithets online.

[hn-shithole]

It's that HN is filled with racist dipshit clowns.

I posted a prototype of a real-time social network on HN many years ago and within minutes there were multiple posts exactly like that.

[givemeethekeys]

Maybe it is a bot by other competing social networks.

Such trolling hurts new businesses a lot more than old ones.

[hammyhavoc]

Other social media platforms don't see this as competition, it's got 59 stars on GitHub. I don't think anyone is losing sleep about their silo being made irrelevant yet.

[hn-shithole]

White supremacists hang out on "Hacker" News. They feel at home because the mods protect them, as long as they mask their commentary in polite language.