Comment by fsflover | Hacker News Reader

Comment by fsflover | Hacker News Reader

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As someone outside of GrapheneOS community and preferring an alternative phone to GOS, I do see flagging and downvoting of my posts on HN. I even stated clearly more than once that I am happy about the GOS development but just prefer something else that you can't get from it.

Nevertheless my (and others') comments are often considered as attacks. Examples of flagged comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49565142

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49542065

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536149

Other people have noticed that GOS community attacks almost every other alternative, instead of joining forces against Google and co.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49564756

The GrapheneOS crowd is constantly accusing everyone in attacks and spreading misinformation about their phones (including in this discussion). Simple replies to misunderstandings and links to earlier reply would be much more polite. At the same time, I also see FUD and misinformation about alternative phones from GOS supporters on HN, e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855369

You do realize that people use the flag feature all the time, right? People have abused the feature to remove our comments in the past too. It's beyond unacceptable to accuse us, without basis, that we're flagging all of your comments.

You are accusing us of "attacking" other groups when we're repeatedly pulled into conversations and we give objective answers and respond to misinformation about GrapheneOS. We have every right to correct misinformation about GrapheneOS. We have every right to defend ourselves against harassment.

Objective facts aren't "attacks." Why are you misrepresenting what we say? Isn't it better if people can make informed decisions?

> It's beyond unacceptable to accuse us, without basis, that we're flagging all of your comments.

You are right that I have no evidence that this group flagged the comments. I just say that I see such pattern in GOS-related discussion. I did not accuse anyone about "all my comments" though. This would indeed be beyond unacceptable.

I am happy to receive objective answers to the misunderstandings. I do have a lot of misunderstandings, too. Replies from the GOS supporters are often helpful. However they often lack some respect to the alternatives. Words like "atrocious security" do not bring us closer.

You very actively seek out discussions about GrapheneOS where you make inaccurate claims about both GrapheneOS and our team. You frequently use it as an opportunity to heavily promote products which are the direct opposite of privacy and security hardened devices. Those products are heavily promoted by those companies with false marketing and misinformation.

Immense harm has been caused through the misconceptions the companies behind those products have propagated to make money. It harms actual privacy, security and open hardware efforts. We aren't on the same side as those companies and aren't working towards the same things. We aren't going to agree on that unless you eventually end up moving on to promoting different products without those issues.

We're on the same side as several legitimate projects you promote including QubesOS. However, you promote those as part of attacking GrapheneOS and usually group it together with phony privacy products.

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