<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shusaku</author><text>I think that people of certain generations need to be taught the beauty of a burner account. You get to say whatever you want, and are invulnerable to criticism. The downside is there’s no ego boost to seeing your name in the news or using your fame to get impressions. But that’s the double sided sword of reputation.&lt;p&gt;When I was growing up on the internet, everyone understood the value of pseudo anonymity. But then Facebook came along and everyone is shocked that attaching your name and face to your random thoughts is a bad idea.&lt;p&gt;And while  a burner account is vulnerable to doxing, at least that’s universally viewed as going over the line. And maybe as an owner of a social media platform, Musk could prevent doxing with better privacy tools.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My Free Speech Means You Have to Shut Up</title><url>https://popehat.substack.com/p/my-free-speech-means-you-have-to</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>motohagiography</author><text>Question I would have for Popehat would be whether a DoS attack is speech or not. If it is, why isn&amp;#x27;t it protected, because it&amp;#x27;s inline messaging on the medium it uses and is therefore like any other mediated expression. If it isn&amp;#x27;t, what is it about attacking the medium and participants that isn&amp;#x27;t speech?&lt;p&gt;The problem with the cancel culture people is their &amp;quot;working the ref,&amp;quot; strategy launches a DoS attack on the participants in targeted discourses. I&amp;#x27;m thinking what the equivalent is, like maybe LibsofTikTok, which is public mockery that likely crosses over into similar cancel-culture consequences, where there is a strong argument to be made that it is incitement. However, I don&amp;#x27;t think one can defend cancelations in principle without also defending LibsOfTikTok, or much worse, something like 4chan or kiwifarms, because if you are defending the incitement of a cancel mob, you&amp;#x27;re also defending one that uses mockery and that also results in some lunatic taking it too far.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My Free Speech Means You Have to Shut Up</title><url>https://popehat.substack.com/p/my-free-speech-means-you-have-to</url></story>