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Glad to see this post didn't get flagged like the one that was posted yesterday on a similar topic about ICE data mining and user tracking. https://news.ycombi
by eoskx 9mo ago
Glad to see this post didn't get flagged like the one that was posted yesterday on a similar topic about ICE data mining and user tracking.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46748336 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46748336
- therobots927 9mo agoGive it a few minutes
- amelius 9mo agoYes just wait until the topic changes from databases to the political side where the root of the problem lies.
- AlecSchueler 9mo agoThe title is already political. There's no other way to cut it.
- noncoml 9mo agoAaaand… it’s gone
- taurath 9mo agoIt likely will. There’s major impact on literally everyone in tech, there’s huge data privacy concerns, and it has less coverage or discussion than a new version of jQuery. The US gov could fall but that would count as politics here so clearly irrelevant.
- andy99 9mo ago> less coverage or discussion than a new version of jQuery Pretty sure this is a feature not a bug. Most people aren’t here for political topics.
- therobots927 9mo agoYep. They’re here to bury their head in the sand and keep up to date with the latest tech trends like the good little worker bees they are.
- watty 9mo agoI don't think that's fair. I follow politics closely but prefer HN to stay technical. It shouldn't be offensive.
- deleted 9mo ago[deleted]
- filoeleven 9mo agoThe "hide" link is right next to the "flag" link. Using flag instead of hide puts more strain on the mods, and is not the right thing to do for "this topic doesn't apply to my interests."
- TeMPOraL 9mo agoBut it is the right thing to do for "this topic violates HN guidelines both in letter and in spirit, as well as predictably causing low-quality discussion threads".
- deleted 9mo ago[deleted]
- UncleMeat 9mo agoWe do not agree that it violates the HN guidelines, either in letter or in spirit.
- torstenvl 9mo ago> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics > Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity. To the latter point, hundreds of comments in, and nobody has even brought up the intellectual curiosity angle of this (what limits are in place to the Federal government using data from Federal programs for law enforcement purposes? and does it matter if the program is administered by individual states?). Instead it's just political rage bait, including citing the Rev Niemöller poem as if we're talking about Nazis. (It used to be part of Internet culture that the moment you compared something mundane to the Nazis, you automatically lost the argument and were mocked mercilessly. We should bring that back.)
- nailer 9mo agoYes. I think the problem is people that drive into police officers, abandon their children or bring a gun to a law enforcement event then resist arrest. HN is full of activism these days and I’m tired of the support for vigilantism.
- moogly 9mo agoNo the problem is bootlickers with less self-preservation skills than animals who bend over backwards to reject actual reality because they think they're in the billionaire pedophilic ruling class in-group when they're not.
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- jjice 9mo agoTons of political posts are on the front page of Hacker News all the time. The ones I actually see get flagged are generally bad articles. Sure, there's real stuff that gets flagged down too, but Hacker News is far from a place where politics is always flagged.
- alex1138 9mo agoDamn near everything on HN gets flagged eventually. Either get everyone to drop their biases as Silicon Valley tech VCs or make it so that flags can ONLY be used to remove clear abuse. Sick of it
- noncoml 9mo agoIt is really disheartening and sad to see this community burying its head in the sand and ignoring what’s happening to our country
- nailer 9mo agoThere’s probably a lot of people that have say mainstream left (eg Obama and Sanders statements around 2010), centrist and conservative views on illegal immigration and support enforcing the law. What you see as something bad happening is something very normal made more difficult by unhelpful state governments and vigilante groups.
- saubeidl 9mo agoArmed goons terrorizing cities, dragging people out to brutalize and murder them is not "something very normal". It's what the brown shirts did.
- nailer 9mo ago[flagged]
- maest 9mo ago"Come right in, the water is fine" said the frog in the pot.
- nailer 9mo agoAs a legal immigrant, I’m not in the pot because I didn’t enter the country by breaking the law.
- defrost 9mo agoNor did the Navajo enter the country by breaking the law. All the same: https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/navajo-man-opens-up-about-being-detained-by-ice https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/navajo-man-opens-up-ab...
- lvl155 9mo agoI actually think it’s best that HN flags and removes them because we are quickly entering a stage in this country where you will be flagged by the government monitoring the internet. I would caution people to start using VPN and continuously flush your IPs. I would even go as far as to recommend removing face ID from your devices which basically offers zero protection once you’re detained (or have a quick way to disable it).
- hackable_sand 9mo agoYou want us to hide in our own country?
- daveguy 9mo agoOr get in the streets to peacefully protest before you have to.
- hackable_sand 9mo agoWay ahead of you
- whynotmaybe 9mo agoIt's becoming worse on a daily basis. People are starting to get angry and if enough people are angry, this will lead to either government change or repression. If it's repression, you're not ready for what's coming.
- hackable_sand 9mo agoOkay