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No politics in HN, please.

klearvue 14y ago
I think the title of the article is unnecessarily provocative considering recent political and military events. It might not be intentional but a little more thought into the title could have resulted in something with less political overtones, say, "Supporting Israel's Start-Up Community".
- recuter 14y ago
  The title is in reference to the book "Startup Nation", nothing provocative about it.
supervacuo 14y ago
"No politics" is like absolute zero: a state unreachable because of the nature of the universe. In fact, "no politics" is in itself a very political statement; you're calling for a libertarian foreign policy attitude by saying that it's possible to separate technology from the conditions under which it is produced and used. If it were Apple or Google enacting a murderous military occupation I don't think you'd get very far trying to prevent people from discussing that on HN. Nations are like what we used to have before corporations... remember?
- alwaysright 14y ago
  It's the site's policy, read it, and perhaps you won't have karma of 1 forever. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, 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. Calling Israel "apartheid" or "murderous military occupation" or "racist" is so old and boring (regardless of being racist, antisemitic and not really supported by facts nor accepted by most western world) and really doesn't fall into "evidence of some interesting new phenomenon" Funnily, this flame comment is what took this topic off the front page, which means no one hardly reads this post anyway. So congratulations, instead of voicing your opinion in a civil way and making your point, you managed to get this topic flagged, and no one reads what you have to write. So if you want to help the Palestinians, stop trying, you just make it worse.

I think the title of the article is unnecessarily provocative considering recent political and military events. It might not be intentional but a little more thought into the title could have resulted in something with less political overtones, say, "Supporting Israel's Start-Up Community".

recuter 14y ago
The title is in reference to the book "Startup Nation", nothing provocative about it.

supervacuo 14y ago

"No politics" is like absolute zero: a state unreachable because of the nature of the universe. In fact, "no politics" is in itself a very political statement; you're calling for a libertarian foreign policy attitude by saying that it's possible to separate technology from the conditions under which it is produced and used. If it were Apple or Google enacting a murderous military occupation I don't think you'd get very far trying to prevent people from discussing that on HN. Nations are like what we used to have before corporations... remember?

alwaysright 14y ago
It's the site's policy, read it, and perhaps you won't have karma of 1 forever. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, 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. Calling Israel "apartheid" or "murderous military occupation" or "racist" is so old and boring (regardless of being racist, antisemitic and not really supported by facts nor accepted by most western world) and really doesn't fall into "evidence of some interesting new phenomenon" Funnily, this flame comment is what took this topic off the front page, which means no one hardly reads this post anyway. So congratulations, instead of voicing your opinion in a civil way and making your point, you managed to get this topic flagged, and no one reads what you have to write. So if you want to help the Palestinians, stop trying, you just make it worse.