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Political posts are banned unless they involve technology

• mftaha 5y ago
  Using technology to silence people is technology
• rorykoehler 5y ago
  Pretty much everything involves technology today. What was that famous quote? "Software will eat the world" or something like this?
• dang 5y ago
  That's not accurate. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and these past explanations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902490 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902490 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=political%20overlap%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....
  • edgyquant 5y ago
    From your link >Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. So while maybe it isn’t “unless they involve technology” is is still claimed in your guidelines that they are mostly banned.
    • dang 5y ago
      If you familiarize yourself with the past explanations that I just linked to, you'll see that this is explained in detail. If, after that, you have a question that isn't answered there, I'd be happy to give it a try.