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May I just ask, on what grounds was this flagged?

• Mz 10y ago
  Without looking at the article, I will suggest one possibility is that people are reacting to the inflammatory, click bait title. I have had perfectly good articles flagged to death due to poor titling. In one case, I deleted it, asked for a title suggestion from the mods and resubmitted it with their permission and things went significantly differently the second time around. The HN crowd is pretty sensitive to bad titles.
  • malloryerik 10y ago
    Right, I think I hadn't imagined how sensitive some, apparently on the political right, would be to the word "fascist." The article is about a Principal Researcher at Microsoft's SXSW presentation, "Dark Days: AI and the Rise of Fascism." The title on HN was merely a condensed version of the article in The Guardian. (I was going to link to the Financial Times' article but there is a paywall. The Guardian is a top global newspaper though, and was being attacked here as a mere hippy rag, whose readers must reside in "seed bunkers," so, wacky believers in climate change, much the way the New York Times is attacked as fake news.) Seems to me that those who were offended had their amygdalas tripped by the word "fascist" because these days when they see that word, they feel as if it's being used as an attack against them, and the larger conversation is thereby hijacked. Meanwhile a highly-related article about AI being leveraged in China to adjust credit scores according the way that people charge their phone batteries wasn't flagged. So it seems that you're right.