Me: "here on HN, if you don't stick to the 'THIS SIDE GOOD THAT SIDE BAD' narrative, your voice WILL be restricted."
1) I open a private window and view this thread - there are five total posts by me.
2) when logged in, there are seven posts - this is what's called "shadow banned"
3) in the private tab, one of my posts is flagged, it's specifically the one where I say "this is what happens in our world when you don't uncritically and simplistically stick to one side bad or one side good"
Your response: "You're not shadow banned"
HN response to my post: [flagged]
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You: "objectively false conspiracy theories"
Me: "CIA/MI6 coup of 1953 that overthrew Iran's democratically elected government to protect Western oil interests"
Title: "CIA/MI6 coup of 1953 that overthrew Iran's democratically elected government to protect Western oil interests"
In the opening paragraph:
"On 19 August 1953, Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh was fired by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran .... It was instigated by the United Kingdom (MI6), under the name Operation Boot and the United States (CIA), under the name TP-AJAX Project or Operation Ajax. A key motive was to protect British oil interests in Iran after Mosaddegh nationalized the country's oil industry."
Your response: "ramblings"
You're really not very good at being faced with objective facts that interfere with your worldview, whether it's HN or Iran.
This isn't fringe stuff, it's well known and documented, I would have thought most people commenting on a post about Iran would know this history, perhaps I can help you out:
"Conspiracy" Theory: "CIA/MI6 coup of 1953 that overthrew Iran's democratically elected government to protect Western oil interests"
Evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
"On 19 August 1953, Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh was fired by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran .... It was instigated by the United Kingdom (MI6), under the name Operation Boot and the United States (CIA), under the name TP-AJAX Project or Operation Ajax. A key motive was to protect British oil interests in Iran after Mosaddegh nationalized the country's oil industry."
If you find any evidence that says CIA/MI5 were not behind the coup of a democratically elected government to protect Western oil interests, please let me know, I'm very interested in this topic.
"Conspiracy" Theory: "verifiable institutional actors with control over media outlets, public figures, and politicians -pointing to a systematic, decades-long negative framing of Iran"
Evidence:
State Department records list CIA “Political Propaganda” work in the TPAJAX files.
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1951-54Ira...
"CIA Confirms Role in 1953 Iran Coup" (from the National Security Archive)
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB435/
"American and British involvement in Mosaddeq's ouster has long been public knowledge, but today's posting includes what is believed to be the CIA's first formal acknowledgement that the agency helped to plan and execute the coup."
Since then, there is substantial evidence Western/U.S. coverage and official discourse has repeatedly framed Iran through threat, extremism, nuclear danger, terrorism, and regime instability. Rather than me spamming links, I will just say this evidence is very easy to find and read. If you have any evidence to the contrary, please present it.
"Conspiracy" Theory: "you almost never read anything good about Iran?"
Evidence: Go to the websites of major Western outlets such as BBC News, The Guardian, NYT - search for "Iran" and look at the first 50–100 headlines.
Then categorise them into things like:
War/conflict
Nuclear program
Sanctions
Human rights
Economy
Tourism
Culture
Science
Daily life
Objectively, you will find mostly negative or negatively framed stories. If you find any evidence to the contrary, I'm very interested.
Are there any other "conspiracy theories" I have mentioned that are "objectively false"?
I believe there is a qualitative difference between the governing systems in a country that tries to regulate personal appearances, and one that would shift it's military to the other side of the planet, bombing and murdering Iranian school children and civilians en-masse for no particular reason.
I also believe that your claim of seven "official allowed" haircuts is bs, as with almost everything I ever read about Iran.
Source: I see that Tehrani men have the same variety of haircuts and facial hair styles as in any other city on the planet.
"Russia, Ukraine, and multiple international news agencies reported that Ukrainian drones targeted Moscow on or around May 18, 2026."
There are rarely pure first-order "facts" in the mathematical sense. There are evidence-backed claims with confidence levels. That does not make it "just a litmus test". It makes it a probabilistic factual claim with varying confidence levels - and this one happens to be verified and unambiguous.
Your first comment was subjective in general, and suspiciously pro-right anti-left - in my opinion.
You could have left it at that.
Instead you decided on an emotional outburst due to being downvoted by "idiots" - giving us all an absolute textbook example of "better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt".
Counterpoint from my time in a brutal warzone, as a civilian.
Maybe if you voluntarily join the military of a country known for invasions and war, you're not that helpless to begin with. And, if you get sent to another country with the goal to kill soldiers and civilians, and you yourself get killed by a drone it’s not that chilling.
I am actually, objectively, being shadowbanned, for precisely the reason I pointed out. It's easy to confirm.