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To discern the subtle censorship HN is doing, just divide upvotes/minutes on the HN homepage. HN may have decided that "Snowden news" is not hacker news. Defin
by teawithcarl 13y ago
To discern the subtle censorship HN is doing, just divide upvotes/minutes on the HN homepage. HN may have decided that "Snowden news" is not hacker news. Definitely, articles are getting flagged.
- eli 13y agoWhich is fair -- do we really need 4+ front page stories about this same event?
- mmariani 13y agoWhen something of value to this community I dare to say yes. For instance http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsmw5vkyxT1qba239.png http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsmw5vkyxT1qba239.png
- eli 13y agoBut most of them link to essentially the same thing, not different perspectives on the same event. It just fragments the discussion.
- mmariani 13y agoYep you're right. In this case we should mainly ignore other sources than those picked by Snowden himself. At least for the sake of keeping the discussions concentrated under trusted posts.
- teawithcarl 13y agoThe fact remains - the Guardian's LIVE BLOG, which has been the definitive news source of this worldwide news for the last 4-5 hours -- never made it onto HN's homepage.