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Lol. Mr Lee really has the balls to opine on free speech! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27286628

This post criticizes a politician for having a former employee who was allegedly formerly a member of an IRC channel, other members of which did bad things.

Is this not cancel culture?

It meets the definition on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancel_culture).

Unfortunately, the term tends to result in a lot of hypocrisy, as people tend to only call it "cancelling" when it's someone they like or agree with.

> who helped spread the smear campaign against myself and freenode.

This is related to freenode.net changes and massive migration to libera.chat . Relevant coverage in Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenode#Ownership_change_and_...

America is cancelling itself. At least this is prolly the best possible outcome for the rest of the world. Indeed dystopian what they describe here, yet it seems so realistic and 'normal' these days

Wow. I don't use freenode so I can't speak on that but what the American government is doing here is extremely worrying. They're dismantling open society.

seems unlikely that Biden knows who Andrew Lee is or what freenode is...

Short, concise and excellent without much to add in my opinion.

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