alt Hacker News> All social media does this. Even HN (through its users flagging articles).
I don't consider user-directed upvotes/downvotes/flags to be in the same category as company or state decided censorship.
> All social media does this. Even HN (through its users flagging articles).
I don't consider user-directed upvotes/downvotes/flags to be in the same category as company or state decided censorship.
The observed effect is the same: A relatively small number of people decide, based on political leanings, what is on-topic and off-topic, on behalf of the rest of the users.