Maybe because it's "US-based surveillance"

https://xcancel.com/garrytan/status/1963310592615485955

That’s the new YC CEO? Jesus Christ. The techno-totalitarianism has infected the entire Silicon Valley.

Holy shit this is the ycombinator CEO?

If you the reader are working on these technologies, I encourage you take a good look at yourself in the mirror. You are building a surveillance state for the rich to use against yourself, me and everyone else not part of the ruling class.

You are helping cement the class divide.

JFC what a moron he is…

people like him find themselves in waiting in the line for the showers wondering why they'd do this to "one of the good ones"

Flagged articles used to be a sign of something being misleading, badly written, or just something generally off to take caution with.

The last two years it has become more of a signal that "this is something right wing USA would want to supress".

I think the flagging mechanism needs a rethink now it is being abused in this way.

The moderators genuinely seem to think that everything is going perfectly according to plan and if you ever try to suggest that there’s a group of users who flag things in a coordinated fashion purely because they personally don’t align with their politics you will be told that you’re a conspiracy theorist and that you should just trust them that they are doing a great job but also at the same time no you’re not allowed to see any of the rational behind their moderation decisions, there’s no log, you just have to take them at their word even if we can all see clear as day that there is no link between the rules as they are written and the rules as they are enforced.

Thou shalt not criticize the rich, especially when they're building weapons against the unprivileged.

Because boot lickers.

Because rightwing bootlickers don't want the truth to be known.