Freedom of speech and I guess HN is an international community? On the post, as the author said, seeing is believing. Whether or not it's CCP propaganda, it's facts.
“Seeing is believing” really doesn’t make any sense in the modern world. And facts don’t exist in a vacuum, they are presented with a specific narrative, some are just omitted, some are plain lies (China bringing joy to Tibet population by providing better food, really?).
I find it informative to see other points of view and an impressive number of facts that are presented in this Quora answer, rather than just the Western point of view, which arguably could be also called as "propaganda". Let's not go this route.
That’s irrelevant IMHO. I’m not saying that the link shouldn’t be shared on HN, which would potentially be a matter of freedom of speech. But the HN homepage isn’t a neutral list of links ranked by users, there is a specific algorithm to give visibility to some topics and not others, and admins ultimately decide what is there. For example you can easily see that politically controversial topics are often quickly downgraded from their high rank, if they reach the top. My question is why should a piece full of CCP propaganda (not just facts, they are clearly spun in a CCP friendly narrative) be in the homepage? That’s clearly not what the platform strives for.
