Ask HN: HN Blocks Sites Like Fox News?

3•silexia•2h ago

I have noticed that I very rarely see Fox News on HN. I commonly see sites with similar middle brow journalism quality from the left on here, especially The Guardian and NY Times (which used to be high brow but has fallen way off).

HN used to be mostly libertarian entrepreneurs, but the far left has made major inroads. I guess it could be users just not submitting or upvoting Fox News and right wing websites?

@Dang are there any algorithmic blocks against sites like Fox News or is it just user upvoting behavior?

Comments

bigfatkitten•2h ago

HN posters generally prefer reporting that contains at least a kernel of truth. Not even Fox News says that you should believe anything they produce.

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-...

ofalkaed•2h ago

Even vouching for the response to you is not enough to bring it back from the dead so I can not reply to it, so I reply to you. Fox news is no more to blame than CNN or NPR, they all just play the game and try to get on the front page. Blaming Fox News or NPR or HN is ridiculous.

magicalhippo•2h ago

Clearly it's not blocked[1].

As a Norwegian, which stories do you think Fox News report better on than other sources? As in, which stories do you think people should submit Fox News as a source for rather than some other source?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=foxnews.com

ofalkaed•2h ago

At least 90% of HN flags any submission that is remotely political. It is rare that the the cable news networks are not at least remotely political. Most of the internet is dedicated to politics and consumerism, let us have our corner.

bigyabai•1h ago

It's a blatant Christian Zionist rag.

ofalkaed•1h ago

I downvote you but I don't flag OP, despite feeling the same about both of your posts. OP is at the very least trying to understand, even if they feel it is unfair, they leave the space for difference of opinion, not being right.

bigyabai•1h ago

I accept your downvote. All I ask, if you want to determine who is acting in good faith here, is that you click through OP's submission history: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=silexia

ofalkaed•1h ago

We are not supposed to use past posting as proof on HN, we are supposed to respond to what was said. One of those unwritten rules which most get. Do you really believe that I can't find something in all of your posting history that does not conflict with what you say here?

Edit: Your editing your original post proves my point.

bigyabai•1h ago

I perfectly well trust that you can. In this instance, there is ample proof that the poster does not adhere to HN's submission guidelines. If that's an uncouth judgement, please exercise the downvote.

ofalkaed•1h ago

Why did you edit your post? It had some worth, but you edited into something of no worth, limp partisan bullshit.

bigyabai•1h ago

I clicked into OP's submission history and remembered that they were not a good-faith user, so it was more intellectually honest to cut to the chase.

ofalkaed•1h ago

So you decided to act in bad faith to make my response look like bad faith?

>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

armchairhacker•30m ago

Why do you think it’s bad faith? It’s mostly political, but some people here are too and not all posts involve politics (e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41195641).

OP definitely appears conservative. But how do you know they’re intentionally trying to stir trouble, vs. being naive (...maybe, hence conservative...) but genuine?

And do you think it’s a net benefit for posts like these to be flagged vs. visible, when the comments provide direct evidence contradicting OP's assumptions (Fox News is not blocked on HN)? It's always hard to change people's assumptions, and sometimes impossible, but why not try?

DetectDefect•1h ago

These baiting questions and resulting wasteful discussions are just uninteresting. Submissions should be qualified on their own merit instead of needlessly litigating the source of their publication. I say "should" instead of "must" because this is not a public forum, but a private one, and as such, the rules of moderation are not at our discretion. My advice is to accept them and participate productively within the norms, or start your own community which is devoid of any perceived bias, in your own vision of what is reasonable.

bigyabai•1h ago

> Submissions should be qualified on their own merit instead of needlessly litigating the source

They are: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=foxnews.com

Ask HN: Are LLMs becoming a real discovery channel for ecommerce?

Rainbow Six Siege breach gives players billions of credits

Meetings with No Agenda Are a Waste of Time

Sam Altman is hiring someone to worry about the dangers of AI

A Chess Conjecture I've Been Thinking About

Song will bring investors to tears [video]

Websites with Dumb Password Rules

Using Cursor for Importing Data into Notion

Show HN: Just built the best domain search engine

Something to Latch Onto

Venture capital outlook for 2026: 5 key trends

Signal users can now back up and restore messages safely

Project Mariner: Research prototype exploring future of human-agent interaction

Substack Network error = security content they don't allow to be sent

Divide and conquer roger ailes documentary

Picomon 0.2.0: From AMD Crash Fix to GPU Monitoring That Doesn't Suck

Calendar

Show HN: One-click PPTX to PNG (Windows app and Python library)

Show HN: AI slop has flooded the template market

Zuckerberg settles $8B lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids

C –> Java != Java –> LLM

Digital Independence Day

Merry Christmas Day Have a MongoDB Security Incident

New York City Tree Map

Travel agents took 10 years to collapse, developers are three years in

Minnesota Fraud documentary is top Twitter / X video of all time

Show HN: I analyzed 50 directories to see what makes money

A Decline in Churchgoing Led to a Rise in 'Deaths of Despair'

Talk about Cooperation

Where scrollbars are clicked, and why [pdf]

Ask HN: Are LLMs becoming a real discovery channel for ecommerce?

Rainbow Six Siege breach gives players billions of credits

Meetings with No Agenda Are a Waste of Time

Sam Altman is hiring someone to worry about the dangers of AI

A Chess Conjecture I've Been Thinking About

Song will bring investors to tears [video]

Websites with Dumb Password Rules

Using Cursor for Importing Data into Notion

Show HN: Just built the best domain search engine

Something to Latch Onto

Venture capital outlook for 2026: 5 key trends

Signal users can now back up and restore messages safely

Project Mariner: Research prototype exploring future of human-agent interaction

Substack Network error = security content they don't allow to be sent

Divide and conquer roger ailes documentary

Picomon 0.2.0: From AMD Crash Fix to GPU Monitoring That Doesn't Suck

Calendar

Show HN: One-click PPTX to PNG (Windows app and Python library)

Show HN: AI slop has flooded the template market

Zuckerberg settles $8B lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids

C –> Java != Java –> LLM

Digital Independence Day

Merry Christmas Day Have a MongoDB Security Incident

New York City Tree Map

Travel agents took 10 years to collapse, developers are three years in

Minnesota Fraud documentary is top Twitter / X video of all time

Show HN: I analyzed 50 directories to see what makes money

A Decline in Churchgoing Led to a Rise in 'Deaths of Despair'

Talk about Cooperation

Where scrollbars are clicked, and why [pdf]

Ask HN: HN Blocks Sites Like Fox News?

Comments