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HN is not one person. Some commenters want strict censorship to "protect the children" - That's the virtuous opinion to have in 2021 right? Some want a free and open internet with no censorship. One crowd is more annoyingly vocal than the other, so sometimes it seems like everyone here feels the same on certain topics.

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Yep. Personally, I want a free and open internet. Mainly because I've noticed a trend where social media sites have started censoring anything except far-left opinions.

What are you talking about? You can find conservative voices all around Twitter and Facebook.

Other platforms exist. Reddit has been steadily clamping down on content they don’t agree with.

Perhaps the American Right is incompatible with a healthy society.

Which is why some of the most extreme ones are booted off of platforms - because they consistently break the rules that every user agreed to follow.

"American Right" you mean anyone that is more conservative than a dem party? That's an interesting opinion to hold...

The same party that calls anyone less conservative than them "socialists" and "communists" interchangeably.

"Conservative" isn't an accurate term for the American Right because in any other industrialized nation they would be considered an extremist party even by the conservatives. They are authoritarians doing their best to unravel democracy.

Or perhaps people are tired of being beaten over the head with a constant stream of wokeness. Maybe people just want to live their lives without being told by society they’re a piece of trash for being white or a man.

One can find plenty of conservative content on Reddit, too. /r/Conservative/ for example. And there is healthy debate in /r/politics as well.

/r/politics is extremely left-leaning. It's only a matter of time before /r/conservative gets quarantined. I bet they're already planning it.

You're being downvoted, but what you say is objectively and demonstrably true. Unfortunately, the people it doesn't directly effect rarely hear about it from their news sources, so they rarely believe it to be true. Even more unfortunate is that it may indirectly effect them one day, because first they came for the conservatives...

What you're describing is a mainstream political position. Our last president talked about it constantly. Googling "big tech censorship" brings up tons of articles from mainstream media. Just a random sample:

WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/articles/big-tech-twitter-facebook-googl...

EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/right-or-left-you-shou...

It’s true. I’m centrist and I’ve noticed it.

You have been successfully propagandized.

Extreme right wing outlets dominate Facebook interactions almost every day. How is it possible to have a victim complex about something so obviously not true?

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