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Is this being censored from the homepage? I'm surprised I'm not seeing Peter Thiel's speech on the homepage of HN.. seems fishy

skoopie 10y ago
I noticed that too. I had to go back in my history to find the link.
- postcarnival 10y ago
  If true that only shows further how extreme the anti-Trump censors are that want to tell us how we should think. That is exactly why Trump will win.
  - davidw 10y ago
    Actually, if you read the guidelines, politics is considered off topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html The resulting discussion here is all politics.
    - postcarnival 10y ago
      I think it's pretty fair considering his role in the Tech community
grzm 10y ago
Just speculating, but it may have been caught by the flamewar detection software. I don't know how it works. Here's a couple of mentions of it being used in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12792215 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12792215 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12729921 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12729921
hga 10y ago
Yes, anything about him is gone within 2-3 hours, I went so far as 5 pages past the homepage and all 6 items as I type this (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=peter&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=last24h&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=peter&sort=byPopularity&prefix...), including this one that got a lot of votes, but also one of the 5 or so votes one that showed up on the home page for a tiny bit, have been disappeared. Perhaps the mods will step in, assuming they aren't behind it; me, I wonder what'll happen to these people's minds if/when Trumps wins.... Nothing good, especially to those who's business includes needing to sell to ~half the country. ADDED: And now it's flagged; guess he won't be getting to give his side of his story to the HN crowd.
sctb 10y ago
No. This is the usual case of user flags and the flamewar software. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12738677 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12738677.
- grzm 10y ago
  Thanks for clarifying and providing the link!

skoopie 10y ago

I noticed that too. I had to go back in my history to find the link.

postcarnival 10y ago
If true that only shows further how extreme the anti-Trump censors are that want to tell us how we should think. That is exactly why Trump will win.
- davidw 10y ago
  Actually, if you read the guidelines, politics is considered off topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html The resulting discussion here is all politics.
  - postcarnival 10y ago
    I think it's pretty fair considering his role in the Tech community

grzm 10y ago

Just speculating, but it may have been caught by the flamewar detection software. I don't know how it works. Here's a couple of mentions of it being used in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12792215 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12792215 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12729921 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12729921

hga 10y ago

Yes, anything about him is gone within 2-3 hours, I went so far as 5 pages past the homepage and all 6 items as I type this (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=peter&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=last24h&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=peter&sort=byPopularity&prefix...), including this one that got a lot of votes, but also one of the 5 or so votes one that showed up on the home page for a tiny bit, have been disappeared. Perhaps the mods will step in, assuming they aren't behind it; me, I wonder what'll happen to these people's minds if/when Trumps wins.... Nothing good, especially to those who's business includes needing to sell to ~half the country. ADDED: And now it's flagged; guess he won't be getting to give his side of his story to the HN crowd.

sctb 10y ago

No. This is the usual case of user flags and the flamewar software. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12738677 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12738677.

grzm 10y ago
Thanks for clarifying and providing the link!