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Latest Snowden Leaks: FBI Targeted Muslim-American Lawyers
- zmanian 12y agoVery strange that this story is on front page instead of the original. https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/07/09/under-surveillance/ https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/07/09/under-... neutralitymentality said that his post of the source story was taken down on twitter. https://twitter.com/BenDoernberg/status/486737087992201216 https://twitter.com/BenDoernberg/status/486737087992201216
- trauco 12y agoOP here. I was surprised the original was gone so quickly so I posted the wired story, which contained a good, shorter analysis of the FL story. To my surprise, it's way down on the thread now.
- dang 12y agoThat post fell off the front page because it was flagged by users. Same with the current post.
- colanderman 12y agoWhy does Wired hyphenate and reverse the term "American Muslim"? "Muslim" isn't a nationality or ethnicity. No-one says "Christian-American" or "Hindu-American".
- greenyoda 12y agoPrevious discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8008025 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8008025
- tptacek 12y agoLook at that thread; it's shockingly bad, almost a perfect illustration of the problem of political threads on HN. In particular: look for the (prominent!) long-form anti-Islam comments. Notice how some of them aren't illegible light grey --- despite large numbers of downvotes, they sustained enough upvotes to stay viable on the thread!