Objectively, HN has a huge problem with leftists and socialists downvoting conservative/libertarian comments.
Dang knows this. I haven't read all the comments, but if he denies that simple fact, then HN has bigger problems.
You can't have legitimate conversations if the other side is openly hostile to the very idea of even displaying contrarian to their beliefs opinions.
There was a big bubble that many on HN lived in until election day, when they must've realized that there's another half of the country that doesn't think like them.
Here's a perfect example of living in the bubble. Look at all the car hatred on HN, where people are almost giddy over ideas to ban them, limit them, etc...
The vast majority of the people in the world don't think that way.
HN is just a bubble and why it's a parody.
It's funny how partisans on the right often say this, and partisans on the left often say the same thing, with the sides reversed.
The fact is, HN has sizable and active contigents from all parts if the political spectrum, and partisan voting (up and down) comes from all sides.
Or maybe they are.
> Leftists aren't so keen on free speech anyway.
And many leftists would say the same thing about rightists, with the same amount of justification.
Both the right and left have large factions with little devotion to free speech beyond what agrees with them. And both have factions that view disagreement and criticism as suppression.