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No, they flag it because it is against the rules.
by s9w 6y ago
No, they flag it because it is against the rules.
- brokenmachine 6y agoWhich rules is this post against?
- s9w 6y agopolitics
- detaro 6y agoSeems like a clear match to > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. [...] If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- bdcravens 6y agoTrue, but articles about Chelsea Manning or Julian Assange would also be against those same rules.
- tomhoward 6y agoStories about those topics often tick the box of things that "good hackers would find interesting" – i.e., Wikileaks is an emergent phenomenon of the internet age, and NSA tracking of people via the major tech platforms is relevant to everyone who works in or cares about tech and is the kind of thing good hackers can have interesting discussions about.