In case you haven't seen the guidelines in a bit. I assume it is people mass flagging because people believe it's off topic for being political. And maybe that

In case you haven't seen the guidelines in a bit. I assume it is people mass flagging because people believe it's off topic for being political. And maybe that the comments won't be an on topic and productive discussion even if the article does fit from a perspective. This article is gone again. It's not censorship. People just don't want to discuss it. I imagine it's the same for some other topics mentioned in this comment thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did." "What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. 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"