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While HN comments don't tend to be blindly pro-Israel, it is a fact that posts about Gaza _always_ get flagged, while other posts of general interest about viny
by lores 1y ago
While HN comments don't tend to be blindly pro-Israel, it is a fact that posts about Gaza _always_ get flagged, while other posts of general interest about vinyl records, Sudan or CIA training don't.
With the known sophistication of Israel's tech and PR sectors, it's less of a cabal and more of an inevitability.
- hn_throwaway_99 1y ago> While HN comments don't tend to be blindly pro-Israel, it is a fact that posts about Gaza _always_ get flagged That's simply false. This article, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44731958 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44731958, from 6 days ago has 734 votes and 924 comments when I pulled it. Searches for "gaza" and "israel" bring up a lot of other recent stories, some with over a thousand votes. A lot of HNers (myself included) will flag stuff if it's highly likely to devolve into a flamewar with no substantive discussion, especially if it's related to a news story that's highly likely to be covered in loads of other places online. Unfortunately, articles about vinyl records or Sudan tend to elicit more informative discussion than many articles about Gaza.