rasengan0 19 hours ago

Fall indeed. The ultimate state hack and this story is not even ranking high on HN.

  • jauntywundrkind 17 hours ago

    Any and every story of troubles seems to get quickly flagged or dead here. There seems to be zero counter-balast ehat-do-ebrt against the powers foreign & domestic who would censor & suppress: censoring on HN seems basically a free-for-all with zero accountability.

    Surely this too will likely fail. Nothing will be done to enable speech where it is inconvenient for someone.

inverted_flag 21 hours ago

Trump killed these programs for the same reason he 180’d on TikTok. The meddling helped him come to power.

blackeyeblitzar 21 hours ago

Was this the same “foreign meddling” we were told was behind the Hunter Biden story? Sorry but all of this sounds like an attack on free speech. I do think data privacy matters, low censorship is necessary, and content neutral algorithms are important. But boogeyman claims of foreign meddling look like actual meddling themselves.

  • gwervc 19 hours ago

    Looking at how an election was cancelled in the Romania for a few ads or how a Musk twitt is somehow "foreign inference in an election" for the EU, yes the election interference narrative is clearly an attempt at censorship.

  • energy123 20 hours ago

    Well if it "sounds like" an attack I guess case closed, right? No need to dig into the extensive reporting on the Internet Research Agency or other propaganda outfits.