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I’ve noticed a lot of posts like this disappear from the front page lately. Anything potentially critical of Trump seems to drop off suddenly.
by scottmf 9y ago
I’ve noticed a lot of posts like this disappear from the front page lately. Anything potentially critical of Trump seems to drop off suddenly.
- dragonwriter 9y agoThere's a very strong tendency on HN to flag submissions whose subject is strongly tied to partisan politics, except for tech policy issues or issues concerning tech industry figures.
- tdb7893 9y agoI flag them even though I don't like Trump often because the posts (and comments) are often poor quality and political news is already ubiquitous pretty much everywhere else on the Internet so I don't feel bad being a little stricter on it here. Interestingly, "most stories about politics" is one of the example of off-topic in the guidelines so I think there is just a general sentiment against political news here
- ianai 9y agoI don’t think that’s appropriate in a criminal light. It’s ok to say a site is politics free, but evidence of crime shouldn’t be surpressed. Particularly not when the evidence is documented with technological steps. At that point it’s definiely HN worthy. Further, I didn’t see the HN post about a block chain being used in a voting process flagged.