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Serious question: Firstly, have you ever thought about the fact that one, posts like this alienate Israelis from one of the few remaining tech news sources whi
by ukblewis 1y ago
Serious question:
Firstly, have you ever thought about the fact that one, posts like this alienate Israelis from one of the few remaining tech news sources which made them feel safe by excluding politics? (If you’re wondering what I’m talking about, in 2023, I realised that I could no longer read The Verge due to pervasive and horrendous misinformation about Israel on a tech news site)
Secondly, given the havoc that posts like this cause and that it appears to not meet any of the rules for posts on Hacker News (clearly not tech or programming related and quite frankly, no more interesting to any person in tech than any other person), why do you allow this post to still exist?
- dang 1y agoHN has never been exclusively a site about tech: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. There are inevitably some stories with political overlap, though we try to prevent them from dominating the frontpage. I've gone into this in detail in other comments in this thread, with links to past explanations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45267159 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45267159 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45269414 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45269414