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> All social media does this. Even HN (through its users flagging articles).

I don't consider user-directed upvotes/downvotes/flags to be in the same category as company or state decided censorship.



The observed effect is the same: A relatively small number of people decide, based on political leanings, what is on-topic and off-topic, on behalf of the rest of the users.




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