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what does this have to do with hacker news, technology, computers, or science? these are off-topic political news. edit to paste the relevant guidelines: > Of

what does this have to do with hacker news, technology, computers, or science? these are off-topic political news. edit to paste the relevant 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.

ryanlol 7y ago
You’ve been here since 2007, you know HN better than this. Please don’t even start. E: Yeah, I get that I’m going to be downvoted as this political cause is not as popular as HK, but this is regular HN content.
Loughla 7y ago
Politics and the world climate have no impact on technology, computers, or science?
- davidw 7y ago
  One argument for keeping politics out is this: politics are way more important than most of what we post here. If they allow it, it would dominate the site.
  - arpa 7y ago
    A very good point!
- k1e 7y ago
  Protests in Catalonia against referendum trial verdict have little to no impact on technology, computers or science.
arpa 7y ago
And china, hk and blizzard aren't?
- naringas 7y ago
  blizzard is a video games company. china is often here because they use computer technology for mass surveilance. iirc the catalan separatist made some interesting use of technology when they protested in 2017 so that is relevant. this article is about how they are now sentenced. i.e. TV news
  - arpa 7y ago
    I read it differently: the powers that be will always punish the ones who dare to stand in the way in the harshest possible way. Something to think about when being excited about disrupting some well established and powerful sector - e.g. government.
k1e 7y ago
Really, /r/worldnews on reddit exists for those who want to discuss world news in a reddit-esque format.
i80and 7y ago
Also from the guidelines: > Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.
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Al-Khwarizmi 7y ago
Well, just to provide a technological angle... When the protests started hitting the airport, police started asking for boarding passes so that only passengers could enter. Then, the protesters set up a Telegram group to share actual boarding passes from today's flights. Dozens of them were posted to the group. Apparently the ruse worked, although from what I've heard, not for long. The police started matching the passes with IDs.

ryanlol 7y ago

You’ve been here since 2007, you know HN better than this. Please don’t even start. E: Yeah, I get that I’m going to be downvoted as this political cause is not as popular as HK, but this is regular HN content.

Loughla 7y ago

Politics and the world climate have no impact on technology, computers, or science?

davidw 7y ago
One argument for keeping politics out is this: politics are way more important than most of what we post here. If they allow it, it would dominate the site.
- arpa 7y ago
  A very good point!
k1e 7y ago
Protests in Catalonia against referendum trial verdict have little to no impact on technology, computers or science.

arpa 7y ago

And china, hk and blizzard aren't?

naringas 7y ago
blizzard is a video games company. china is often here because they use computer technology for mass surveilance. iirc the catalan separatist made some interesting use of technology when they protested in 2017 so that is relevant. this article is about how they are now sentenced. i.e. TV news
- arpa 7y ago
  I read it differently: the powers that be will always punish the ones who dare to stand in the way in the harshest possible way. Something to think about when being excited about disrupting some well established and powerful sector - e.g. government.

k1e 7y ago

Really, /r/worldnews on reddit exists for those who want to discuss world news in a reddit-esque format.

i80and 7y ago

Also from the guidelines: > Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.

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Al-Khwarizmi 7y ago

Well, just to provide a technological angle... When the protests started hitting the airport, police started asking for boarding passes so that only passengers could enter. Then, the protesters set up a Telegram group to share actual boarding passes from today's flights. Dozens of them were posted to the group. Apparently the ruse worked, although from what I've heard, not for long. The police started matching the passes with IDs.