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I want you to understand Chicago
- htgb 1y agoLink should be https://aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-you-to-understand-chicago https://aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-you-to-understand-chicago
- cryzinger 1y agoI assume this was meant to link directly to https://aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-you-to-understand-chicago https://aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-you-to-understand-chicago, which is currently the most recent item in the /posts category
- dullcrisp 1y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45859402 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45859402 It got flagged, but this is happening and isn’t being talked about because it isn’t happening to people who have influence.
- zemo 1y agoThis submission is flagged too. Who is flagging these, and why?
- hexbin010 1y agoIt's very clearly against the guidelines, that's why https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
- crooked-v 1y agoI would certainly call secret police running rampant in a US city an 'interesting new phenomenon'.
- dullcrisp 1y agoCan you explain? I haven’t been watching TV news, but I haven’t seen this being broadly covered elsewhere. You’re saying this is trivial and uninteresting? Or just everything relating to the US government is “politics” and we can’t talk about it? Because I think the guideline is meant to be about the former.
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- casenmgreen 1y agoI think there comes a point where the situation is so serious normal guidelines, intended for normal times, no longer apply.
- andix 1y agoIt's still off-topic here at hn. The community is very international, similar things happen in dozens of other countries too. The front page would be full of politics, if those kind of articles wouldn't be flagged. There are a lot of other platforms, that are open for any topic, including politics. Reddit is probably the most similar one to hn.
- toomanyrichies 1y ago“ Unavailable Due to the UK Online Safety Act” https://archive.ph/X33oQ https://archive.ph/X33oQ
- galangalalgol 1y agoThis story is unavailable due to the online safety act? On what grounds? I mean, we all knew it would turn into censorship, but that was fast.
- toomanyrichies 1y agoEven weirder is that I’m currently in France, not the UK.
- Smaug123 1y agoThis is aphyr's standard policy. https://blog.woof.group/announcements/updates-on-the-osa https://blog.woof.group/announcements/updates-on-the-osa summarises the reasoning, which basically boils down to "the legislation is broad enough in scope to cover most of what he wants to do online in theory, the guidance about what will happen in practice is nonexistent, the punishments if they choose to go after you are extremely severe, and the costs of complying with the regulation are very onerous, so it's not worth complying", which seems fair enough.
- zemo 1y agoThis was flagged in the last minute or two, I refreshed the page and it changed to flagged. Ridiculous.
- casenmgreen 1y agoI am concerned flag is being abused by State run actors.
- zemo 1y agoThat seems less likely than insufferably pedantic nerds screaming “off topic!!!! off topic!!!” whenever they see anything that makes them even slightly uncomfortable.
- myrmidon 1y agoI don't think it is ridiculous to flag topics like this. The problem is that topics like this are incredibly hard to keep civil, and the "HN factor" ("prominent" people involved chiming in) is not really there, either. It also frequently ends up in the exact same repeated arguments (at best). Personally, I'm not flagging posts like this and I'm always very happy when the tone stays civil and the discussion interesting, but I can see why people would.
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- LexiMax 1y agoHN merely tries to keep up the appearance of being a place of civil debate and discussion. The bias comes out when the subject matter becomes in any way controversial. You can say some pretty horrendous things on here as long as you couch them in mealy-mouthed modest-proposal language, while there's almost no recourse for having a good faith rebuttable flagged or down-voted. In theory, the site moderators are supposed to be a check valve on this kind of abuse, but it's quite sobering to look at the age of some of the accounts who behave badly on HN and yet have somehow passed notice. I can only assume that the moderators are okay with the company they allow on the site, and I think it's worth taking a look around and asking yourself "Is this place _really_ worth contributing to?"
- dang 1y agoRelated ongoing thread: I Want You to Understand Chicago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45859402 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45859402