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Why this was flagged? Censorship in HN came to a point that can't be ignored anymore. It is ok to post an article saying Trump will send troops to Greenland,

by akagusu 9mo ago

Why this was flagged? Censorship in HN came to a point that can't be ignored anymore. It is ok to post an article saying Trump will send troops to Greenland, but a post saying Denmark will send troops defend Greenland is flagged? It's ridiculous.

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- sph 9mo ago
  Yet somehow other political posts that aren't as overtly critical of the US government aren't being flagged. Weird, huh? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616745 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616745 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46614963 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46614963 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600194 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600194 I maintain my conspiracy theory that a lot of the politically-motivated flagging on this platform is from the moderators, not the users. Y Combinator the company has shown to be openly pro-Trump.
  - leosanchez 9mo ago
    > Y Combinator the company has shown to be openly pro-Trump. Paul Graham is pretty anti-trump if you follow is twitter account.
    - sph 9mo ago
      PG isn't the boss any more. Last I heard, the current YC CEO was applauding Larry Ellison's plan for pervasive monitoring of American citizens, for example.
  - akramachamarei 9mo ago
    2/3 of those articles are tech related, the other not obviously so, and the current not at all. Of course, the HN guidelines don't state "only tech news." They say submit stories which "gratify one's intellectual curiosity" and to avoid most political stories; I think this one fails on both counts. Scoring this charitably 3 to 1 nonetheless yields no significant insight. Personally, I followed HN for news about hacking. I'd prefer all offtopic submissions flagged, or at least demoted. What's the point in a _hacker_ news Front Page RSS feed if I get dupes of major global stories?
  - akagusu 9mo ago
    I think it's not conspiracy theory, but just a matter of facts and logical reasoning.
awnird 9mo ago
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RankingMember 9mo ago
[flagged] Warsaw Under Siege: Poles Fight Fiercely in Air & Street Battles to Repel German Invaders

by akagusu 9mo ago

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sph 9mo ago
Yet somehow other political posts that aren't as overtly critical of the US government aren't being flagged. Weird, huh? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616745 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616745 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46614963 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46614963 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600194 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600194 I maintain my conspiracy theory that a lot of the politically-motivated flagging on this platform is from the moderators, not the users. Y Combinator the company has shown to be openly pro-Trump.
- leosanchez 9mo ago
  > Y Combinator the company has shown to be openly pro-Trump. Paul Graham is pretty anti-trump if you follow is twitter account.
  - sph 9mo ago
    PG isn't the boss any more. Last I heard, the current YC CEO was applauding Larry Ellison's plan for pervasive monitoring of American citizens, for example.
- akramachamarei 9mo ago
  2/3 of those articles are tech related, the other not obviously so, and the current not at all. Of course, the HN guidelines don't state "only tech news." They say submit stories which "gratify one's intellectual curiosity" and to avoid most political stories; I think this one fails on both counts. Scoring this charitably 3 to 1 nonetheless yields no significant insight. Personally, I followed HN for news about hacking. I'd prefer all offtopic submissions flagged, or at least demoted. What's the point in a _hacker_ news Front Page RSS feed if I get dupes of major global stories?
- akagusu 9mo ago
  I think it's not conspiracy theory, but just a matter of facts and logical reasoning.

awnird 9mo ago

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RankingMember 9mo ago

[flagged] Warsaw Under Siege: Poles Fight Fiercely in Air & Street Battles to Repel German Invaders