Presumably people flagging it, possibly the same sort of people who wrote Twitter's trending algorithm that's currently suppressing the #Ferguson hashtag from a

Presumably people flagging it, possibly the same sort of people who wrote Twitter's trending algorithm that's currently suppressing the #Ferguson hashtag from appearing in many people's interfaces (see here for more info: https://twitter.com/xkeepah https://twitter.com/xkeepah ). Much as those engineers don't get to hide behind "a computer did it!", the people flagging this post are actively participating in suppressing the knowledge of police oppression, regardless of their view of "appropriate" content on HN. If any of the administrators of HN are reading this, they're also a participant in that system. Choosing to reduce visibility is complicity. EDIT: The deleted parent inquired why this post rapidly fell off the front page.