Yeah, it was me, the same person in both instances. :-) I agree it's it a tough call. There's a ton of inflammatory comments on both sides of the issue, and it

Yeah, it was me, the same person in both instances. :-) I agree it's it a tough call. There's a ton of inflammatory comments on both sides of the issue, and it's both predictable and impossible to moderate on a practical level. Often I get annoyed at the obvious flamebait political stories on the front page. They usually have a lot of back and forth that's just people talking their side, saying nothing that we haven't all heard before. Not much plus to offset the minus of the flamewar. This one felt different, though, since it's one of the biggest people in tech and one of the biggest companies. And I personally feel it will have ramifications for years to come in the tech business world. I don't know. What can you do when a topic really does merit discussion on HN, but most of it will be a flamewar? Maybe fencing it all in one place is the best of no perfect choices...