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Flagged. This one seems straight from the submission guidelines: Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some i
by Locke1689 17y ago
Flagged. This one seems straight from the submission guidelines:
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
- jonknee 17y agoI find it very relative hacker news and this isn't a story that will be covered on TV news. This is behind the scenes and is about how the internet is completely disrupting the control of information by governments.
- Locke1689 17y agoHmmm, maybe. However, I could definitely see TSA harassment as something be covered on TV news. I mostly saw this from the political/legal angle which is rather trite and has been covered many times before. This is behind the scenes and is about how the internet is completely disrupting the control of information by governments. I didn't think of this at first but you may be right. Although, I would have preferred an analysis from that perspective in this case, rather than a reporting of the legal circumstances.
- anigbrowl 17y agoI think a question of whether bloggers enjoy journalistic privileges or not is a leading indicator of how things will go for new media where journalists aren't necessarily under the wing of a large publisher with an experienced legal department. To me this is the same sort of issue as an exploit advisory.
- ironkeith 17y agoWhile we're being sticklers for the guidelines... If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.