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I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks

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1009 points n1b0m | 5 comments | 19 Mar 25 11:21 UTC | HN request time: 1.576s | source
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greggyb ◴[19 Mar 25 13:34 UTC] No.43411777[source]▶
Why is this flagged?

First of all, it's about an entrepreneur traveling to the US for a startup, which is directly relevant to a significant proportion of YCombinator founders themselves.

Beyond its direct relevance to the core founding audience of HN, it is not clickbait or wantonly inflammatory, and is clearly of interest to many based on the comment activity and votes.

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kragen ◴[19 Mar 25 15:36 UTC] No.43413435[source]▶
Possibly because the comment section will inevitably collapse into a partisan flamewar.
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fourside ◴[19 Mar 25 16:37 UTC] No.43414268[source]▶
This is ironic. I thought there was a big push from the right for less censorship and less moderation in social media. Now we’re flagging posts because the comment section may get heated.
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kragen ◴[19 Mar 25 16:55 UTC] No.43414470[source]▶
This has been HN policy since the beginning, and while HN is usually still quite unpleasant, policies like this one are largely responsible for preventing it from being worse. There are social contexts where discussions of topics like US immigration policy can do good rather than harm, but HN is not one of them.
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1. ok_dad ◴[19 Mar 25 18:57 UTC] No.43416001[source]▶
Are you kidding? There are so many VCs here who have the resources to push for fair treatment of immigrants and foreign visitors! HN is the perfect place to discuss this.
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2. kragen ◴[19 Mar 25 19:14 UTC] No.43416173[source]▶
I am not kidding. The problem is that the discussion collapses into an unpersuasive and uninformative partisan flamewar, so it does not improve the choices that those VCs will make. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43413819 for a more in-depth discussion.
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3. ok_dad ◴[19 Mar 25 19:19 UTC] No.43416236[source]▶
Sometimes things get messy discussing important topics, we should err on the side of sunshine rather than darkness for these discussions. HN has a lot of powerful and wealthy people who have a responsibility to protect the system they relied on to become rich and powerful, but instead these people ignore the discussion because it doesn’t mesh with their ideas that America is the greatest.

See my connect from a few comments ago where I mention how interesting it is we can discuss authoritarian slides everywhere else except when it happens in America. It’s almost a conspiracy, IMO.

Also, I can understand demonizing the current admin, they’re flaunting the most important laws that protect us, and for some here the USA is poised to upend their lives or worse.

In any case, this discussion isn’t interesting, and constant complaints of bad behavior are stifling the actual discussion more than those flagged, dead comments that started shit.

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4. kragen ◴[19 Mar 25 19:48 UTC] No.43416507{3}[source]▶
I deeply regret that you are providing such a perfect illustration of my point.
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5. ok_dad ◴[19 Mar 25 23:10 UTC] No.43418207{4}[source]▶
I regret that you think that, but I’m not explaining to you why you’re wrong, it’s as pointless as you trying to convince me that I’m demonizing anyone with that comment.