{"id":719,"date":"2014-10-24T21:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T21:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sasamat.xen.prgmr.com\/michaelochurch\/wp\/?p=719"},"modified":"2017-03-04T06:22:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T06:22:59","slug":"this-comment-was-censored-by-y-combinators-hacker-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasamat.xen.prgmr.com\/michaelochurch\/wp\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"This comment was censored by Y Combinator\u2019s Hacker News."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The news topic was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/25\/science\/alan-eustace-jumps-from-stratosphere-breaking-felix-baumgartners-world-record.html\">Alan Eustace&#8217;s recent skydiving record<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8504931\">Hacker News comment thread<\/a> is here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8505132\">My comment<\/a> is here. The link may not work.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the text of it.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Maybe this is cynical but I dislike stories like this. I&#8217;m glad he got back safely, but it sounds a bit Everest-y. Felix Baumgartner was an experienced jumper. Every time a corporate executive pulls the &#8220;throw money at something hard for mere mortals&#8221; card I cringe. Again, Everest. The number of rich businessmen who die because Mother Nature does not give a fuck about job titles is immense.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The comment itself isn&#8217;t that interesting. What is interesting is that such a vanilla remark (profanity isn&#8217;t taken to be an issue on Hacker News) could be censored. I wonder why? What libertarian nerve did I tweak?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to speculate. But enjoy the above, an average, ordinary comment rendered unusual by the mere fact of it being censored.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/michaelochurch.wordpress.com\/2543\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/michaelochurch.wordpress.com\/2543\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=michaelochurch.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12019234&#038;post=2543&#038;subd=michaelochurch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news topic was Alan Eustace&#8217;s recent skydiving record. The Hacker News comment thread is here. My comment is here. The link may not work. Here is the text of it. Maybe this is cynical but I dislike stories like this. I&#8217;m glad he got back safely, but it sounds a bit Everest-y. Felix Baumgartner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jan-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sasamat.xen.prgmr.com\/michaelochurch\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sasamat.xen.prgmr.com\/michaelochurch\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sasamat.xen.prgmr.com\/michaelochurch\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sasamat.xen.prgmr.com\/michaelochurch\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sasamat.xen.prgmr.com\/michaelochurch\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sasamat.xen.prgmr.com\/michaelochurch\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/sasamat.xen.prgmr.com\/michaelochurch\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sasamat.xen.prgmr.com\/michaelochurch\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sasamat.xen.prgmr.com\/michaelochurch\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sasamat.xen.prgmr.com\/michaelochurch\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}