Or perhaps its just a reminder to the user that free speech does not need to be extended by private organizations...They have in their TOS to remove content they do not deem fit in the same way users do not need to use these services.

Was it okay for communists to be blacklisted in Hollywood in the 40s and 50s? I personally don't have a problem with it, but I am not a communist.

>I personally don't have a problem with it, but I am not a communist.

The way this reads to me is: If you were against it, it could only be because you were a communist. #mcCarthyism

It’s a reference to a rather famous text from Martin Niemöller, about what happened in Nazi Germany.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...

I love how downvotes on Hacker News have become a totalitarian attack on free speech.

They're proof of cowardice and intellectual dishonesty. That's enough.

Oh the irony.

What irony?