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Disagree. I am on a discussion forum where a community doesn’t have to wage an internet war over Ukraine, Palestine, Iran or UAE on a regular basis. I want a fo

Disagree. I am on a discussion forum where a community doesn’t have to wage an internet war over Ukraine, Palestine, Iran or UAE on a regular basis. I want a forum where I can discuss hacker topics, topics that ignite a hacker curiosity with a bit of tinkering and product building, and Hacker News is for that. You have the World Wide Web to discuss whatever geopolitical pet peeves you have. Hacker News isn’t your fighting ground and flagging is the right thing to do. Read the guidelines. This topic is intellectually lazy and not in the spirit of hacking whatsoever.

aguaviva 2y ago
Read the guidelines. The topic scope is definitely not centered on, let alone restricted to "tinkering and product-building". In fact it explicitly says that it "includes more than hacking and startups." While the scope asks that politics be dialed down, this does not mean that stories should be suppressed just because they have an implicit political angle. My read of what it asks for is that new posts not be simply "politics for the sake politics", which I am wholly on board with. As to the current post: I find it interesting, because (if its findings are valid) it is somewhat surprising (we knew that abuses were happening over there, but not to this extent); which raises questions of why we haven't heard about this yet; also interesting. Also simply because it relates to how that country is trying to develop itself, and the fact that is paradoxically quite archaic and quite modern; also interesting, and not even necessarily political. We're also getting to hear from people who are from or who have lived in the region (or the countries supplying its labor pool); also interesting, and not intrinsically political. If you don't like the political tangents, that's what the [-] element is for.

aguaviva 2y ago

Read the guidelines. The topic scope is definitely not centered on, let alone restricted to "tinkering and product-building". In fact it explicitly says that it "includes more than hacking and startups." While the scope asks that politics be dialed down, this does not mean that stories should be suppressed just because they have an implicit political angle. My read of what it asks for is that new posts not be simply "politics for the sake politics", which I am wholly on board with. As to the current post: I find it interesting, because (if its findings are valid) it is somewhat surprising (we knew that abuses were happening over there, but not to this extent); which raises questions of why we haven't heard about this yet; also interesting. Also simply because it relates to how that country is trying to develop itself, and the fact that is paradoxically quite archaic and quite modern; also interesting, and not even necessarily political. We're also getting to hear from people who are from or who have lived in the region (or the countries supplying its labor pool); also interesting, and not intrinsically political. If you don't like the political tangents, that's what the [-] element is for.