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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=4
by sph 10mo 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 10mo 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 10mo agoPG 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 10mo ago2/3 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 10mo agoI think it's not conspiracy theory, but just a matter of facts and logical reasoning.