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Ask HN: Can submissions be flagged off the front page?
I just watched this story disappear from the main stream while being upvoted rather quickly (19 points in 1 hour):
"Phone-hacking whistle-blower found dead"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2778117
- wmf 15y agoWith enough flags it is possible. I've seen stories with 50 points become [dead].
- espeed 15y agoWho here would want to suppress that story?
- mooism2 15y agoIt's off-topic for HN, and I imagine lots of people feel bored of the whole foreign journalists illegally accessing foreign voicemail farrago.
- espeed 15y agoThis isn't about the journalists accessing voice mail -- this is about what happens to people whom speak out against power. This is about suppressing truth.
- mooism2 15y agoIf the link you mention was the one to the Guardian article, I don't recall there being any suggestion there that his death was due to his having revealed details of the phone hacking. And, it's still off-topic. I didn't flag it, I'm just saying why I think other people might have.
- espeed 15y agoIt was a CNN article, and I don't know if any major media outlets are mentioning the connection yet, but the timing is too suspect not to.