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Lincoln Cannon
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Lincoln Cannon's personal blog at lincoln.metacannon.net covers philosophy and culture. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Facebook Disabled My Account After I Criticized Them”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread about being permanently banned from Facebook. The one comment argues that network effects make some online services natural monopolies that could be regulated like utilities. It does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Lincoln Cannon is a technologist and philosopher, and leading voice of Mormon Transhumanism.
Most-linked posts?
- Facebook Disabled My Account After I Criticized Them2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-23
What Hacker News says?
1. Due to network effects, there's an argument that some types of online services are natural monopolies [0], and should be regulated the way we do for electricity, water, etc. There are reasonable arguments against such regulation (in any domain); but it's potentially within the purview of the state to set "rules of the road" for the market, which in this context could mean digital due process, algorithmic transpar…
Comment linking /2021/01/facebook-disabled-my-account-after-i-criticized-them.html
on “How you can get banned from Facebook permanently”Submitted Facebook Disabled My Account After I Criticized Them as a story · 365 points
HN discussionSubmitted Roko's Basilisk and Technological Theology as a story · 4 points
HN discussion