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I made this submission and it seems ridiculous that a state press release gets censored. Obviously you can (and should) critique the statistical analysis or rej

by z7 4y ago

I made this submission and it seems ridiculous that a state press release gets censored. Obviously you can (and should) critique the statistical analysis or reject it altogether, but that the Florida Department of Health makes this announcement is in itself of obvious public interest and worthy of discussion.

consumer451 4y ago
Your submission and its flagging has been disturbing me for many hours now. The issue is that this is “political” and dang has written about this.[0] However, what are vaccines? They are biotechnology. Technology is what this site is about, correct? The problem is overlap. But everything has been, or is becoming politicized in the United States. This means that every day we will have less and less to discuss here on HN. The other issue is one of partisan bias. I now realize that I need to take a deep hard look at this. As should HN. I guess the solution, as I understand it, is that I begin to flag things that I see as political. Like say, any post about immigration. Section 230? Should we all flag that? Clearly that’s political. What’s next? This is not good. [0] 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...
- z7 4y ago
  The process of flagging is just very opaque to me. I don't know why it was flagged. I don't know who flagged it. A moderator, a high karma poster, multiple people? I don't know if I could appeal it. Your question as to the reason remained unanswered. It's an anonymous process abstracted from transparent human engagement that is somewhat typical for technologized user enviroments.
  - raxxorraxor 4y ago
    I lost my old account and maybe you need karma, but the option to vouch for an article seems gone too. Wouldn't solve the issue, but I think it would be interesting to make transparent who did the flagging.

by z7 4y ago

consumer451 4y ago

Your submission and its flagging has been disturbing me for many hours now. The issue is that this is “political” and dang has written about this.[0] However, what are vaccines? They are biotechnology. Technology is what this site is about, correct? The problem is overlap. But everything has been, or is becoming politicized in the United States. This means that every day we will have less and less to discuss here on HN. The other issue is one of partisan bias. I now realize that I need to take a deep hard look at this. As should HN. I guess the solution, as I understand it, is that I begin to flag things that I see as political. Like say, any post about immigration. Section 230? Should we all flag that? Clearly that’s political. What’s next? This is not good. [0] 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...

z7 4y ago
The process of flagging is just very opaque to me. I don't know why it was flagged. I don't know who flagged it. A moderator, a high karma poster, multiple people? I don't know if I could appeal it. Your question as to the reason remained unanswered. It's an anonymous process abstracted from transparent human engagement that is somewhat typical for technologized user enviroments.
- raxxorraxor 4y ago
  I lost my old account and maybe you need karma, but the option to vouch for an article seems gone too. Wouldn't solve the issue, but I think it would be interesting to make transparent who did the flagging.