Because flagging is effectively a super-down-vote available to low karma posters and HN does not seem to have any meaningful response to topics being silenced v

Because flagging is effectively a super-down-vote available to low karma posters and HN does not seem to have any meaningful response to topics being silenced via flagging for political reasons. I suppose from the YC/dang perspective anything contentious enough to draw orchestrated flagging is contentious enough to draw trolls, shills, etc so perhaps it is viewed as a non-issue that these topics get silenced.