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More people in tech should speak up about how a blanket ban impacts American prosperity as a whole. Cutting off your country from an entire pool of human talent

• willstrafach 10y ago
  Many are speaking up, from what I have seen. Interesting sidenote: News about this EO was getting flagged and/or falling fast from the front page last night and this morning. Noticed it occurring for other political stories lately as well. Has anyone else been noticing this?
  • techterrier 10y ago
    Yep, HN doesn't seem to want us talking about it.
    • grzm 10y ago
      If you mean HN as in HN members, you may be right. You've both ('willstrafach and 'techterrier) been around HN long enough to know that political topics in general tend to lead to a lot of unsubstantial discussion. Members will flag submissions that they don't feel will have useful discussions on HN. Flags will down-weight submissions even before the [flagged] tag appears. Also, discussions can trip the "overheated discussion" trigger due to comment behavior, which further down-weights submissions. I don't know the details of how this works, but have seen it in action. The HN community does a lot of shaping of itself, and there does seem to be a strong desire to keep the discussions civil and constructive. A lot of the discussion around topics such as these generate more heat than light, which doesn't benefit the HN community.
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