dang - I mean this sincerely:

You've got to find a way to hold a conversation about America's war crimes, and its very real crimes against humanity, without violent repression of speech - which is what your threats of account removal amount to.

This story is extremely relevant to your readership.

The title of this HN story is "Survivor of CIA Torture and Rendition Supports Assange at Extradition Trial", and here you are, dang, threatening to ban me for discussing America's war crimes, the very ones which were revealed to the world by Julian Assange.

You are LITERALLY using the very same playbook as Judge Baraitser: "America's crimes against humanity, its war crimes, and its criminal behaviour: SHALL NOT BE DISCUSSED OPENLY IN PUBLIC because: its too scary to the readership".

Yes, America's war crimes are scary. But no matter what you do, they're not going away. You must be prepared to discuss this and to maintain community while it is discussed, openly and honestly, in your forum. The HN community are extremely relevant to this discussion.

Dissuading open discussion about America's horrendous war crimes and diverting attention away from them is complicity.

I'm sure there is a story to be told about how HN censors stories critical of its military industrial masters. In fact, we can follow the money and come up with a very interesting question:

* What is Y-combinators/HN's connection with the KSA and how does that effect HN's reporting around the current genocide of Yemen? *

Perhaps we will read about it in future Wikileaks, or whatever cool tech news site that comes along to replace the smouldering pile of rubble that HN is inevitably to become, as a result of its administrators cowardice...

In the meantime, since you have made comments designed to intimidate me based on personally identifiable information I have posted on your web site:

I am hereby requesting immediate erasure of personal data concerning me according to Article 17 GDPR.

Please erase all personal data concerning me as defined by Article 4(1) GDPR.

Please delete the following personal data concerning me: all comments posted to the HN site under the 'fit2rule' account name.

I am of the opinion that the requirements set forth in Article 17(1) GDPR are fulfilled. You cannot claim an expection based on Article 17(3) GDPR either, particularly as I am not a public figure.

If I have given consent to the processing of my personal data (e.g. according to Article 6(1) or Article 9(2) GDPR), I am hereby withdrawing said consent for the entire process.

In addition, I am objecting to the processing of personal data concerning me (which includes profiling), according to Article 21 GDPR. I request that you restrict the processing of the data concerning me pending the verification whether your legitimate grounds override mine, pursuant to Art. 18(1)(d) GDPR.

If you have made the aforementioned data public, you are obliged pursuant to Article 17(2) GDPR to take all reasonable steps to inform other controllers, including search engine operators, who process the personal data listed above, that I have requested the erasure of all links, copies or replications. This applies not only to exact copies of the data concerned, but also to those from which information contained in the data concerned can be derived.

In case you have disclosed the affected personal data to third parties, you have to communicate my request for erasure of the affected personal data, as well as any references to it, to each recipient as laid down in Article 19 GDPR. Please also inform me about those recipients.

If you object to the requested erasure, you have to justify that to me.

My request explicitly includes any other services and companies for which you are the controller as defined by Article 4(7) GDPR.

As laid down in Article 12(3) GDPR, you have to confirm the erasure to me without undue delay and in any event within one month of receipt of the request.

I am including the following information necessary to identify me:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fit2rule

If you do not answer my request within the stated period, I am reserving the right to take legal action against you and to lodge a complaint with the responsible supervisory authority.