>To clarify, you are saying that private corporations should be forced to pay for and carry whatever content your favorite political party wants?
I don't have a favorite political party, they are all trash (in the United States). But that isn't what I was saying. What I was saying was very straightforward: If you are a corporation that wants to maximize profits, driving away a segment of potential customers is a poor strategy.
Unless that serving that segment drives away another.
For example: I could be a shop in LA and say "I'll happily serve the nazis", but I'd be dumb if I thought that wasn't going to result in other potential customers going elsewhere.
> I don't have a favorite political party, they are all trash (in the United States)
This is BS - you can say that neither party is great, but this is acting like they are equivalently trash, which is objectively false, regardless of your politics. If your politics are "LGBT people are not people", or that only a specific type of person should be allowed to vote, then the liberal parties are trash, and the GOP is your savior. If your viewpoint is that all people should have the same basic rights then there is no way you can look at the GOP as being an option, no matter how fiscally conservative you might be.
But as I said later on, you have repeatedly taken the stance that LGBT folk aren't human, and then proclaimed you don't have a political viewpoint, which is BS that I'm tired of putting up with or ignoring.
Look, I do not care if you're an asshole in real life or just online, as we are unlikely to ever meet in real life. Even if we did, we are unlikely to agree on this topic because you've repeatedly taken the position that you think that "should this group of people have the same basic human rights as other humans" is a reasonable question, and that is only the case if you've already decided that that group is subhuman.
Like I said, I am just tired of reading your BS comments in which you try to act like you don't have politics, or that you aren't at the very least transphobic, when that's very clearly BS.
HN needs a way to "fork" branches of comments that have clearly gone astray, but have value on their own. Maybe turn comments into a red-black tree of some sort: black for regular comments, red for semi-related thoughts, collapsed by default.
>This is BS - you can say that neither party is great, but this is acting like they are equivalently trash
In my opinion both the Democratic and Republican parties are so worthless that they are indistinguishable. From their uniform support for endless war, US global military empire, the police state, ubiquitous surveillance and the endless transfer of wealth from working people to Wall Street rent-seekers, the two parties are the same in substance.
>you have repeatedly taken the stance that LGBT folk aren't human
This is a slanderous statement. I welcome you to quote and link to any comment where I suggested any such thing.
We have a serious mental health crisis post Covid lockdowns, and I hope you can get the help you need.
That's too simplistic of a statement. Sometimes you have to drive some segments out to keep others or to keep advertisers happy. If HN didn't put effort in curating the community would a lot of us still be here?
The limited, mostly consistent curating done by Dang and the staff from HN bears absolutely no resemblance to the widespread censorship on Youtube. For example, many interesting and substantive discussions about various Covid issues happened in HN comments that were completely banned on Youtube, Twitter and other government-compliant platforms in recent years. Certainly it is beneficial for a commercial platform to drive off those who are so offensive that they actively reduce demand from the network by driving away users, but it is absurd to think that has been the rational for Youtube's censorship policy. I would suggest that if HN implemented a Youtube-like censorship policy they would lose far more viewers than they would gain.
YouTube’s customers are mostly advertisers and their clients. And advertisers don’t want their adds next to content that will drive away their customers.
I don't have a favorite political party, they are all trash (in the United States). But that isn't what I was saying. What I was saying was very straightforward: If you are a corporation that wants to maximize profits, driving away a segment of potential customers is a poor strategy.