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It has nothing to do with disagreement. It’s that downvotes are used to silence people.

You can make an argument counter to someone else’s without mini-censorship, but that’s hard, you need knowledge and experience for that.

Whats easy is just to try and hide anyone else from seeing a counter argument at all.




Maybe people downvote because they think it violates the HN commenting rule below?

==Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle. This destroys intellectual curiosity, so we ban accounts that do it.==




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