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an0malous ◴[] No.43601323[source]
This will get flagged off the front page in a couple hours
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smugma ◴[] No.43604762[source]
Question is, why?

Yes, but why?

Is this a cabal of Jews trying to hide the truth? (no, it is not).

Or is it that the atrocity isn’t highly relevant to discuss on a hacker news thread, and also hard to have people follow HN Guidelines? (Much more likely explanation)

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1. an0malous ◴[] No.43607015[source]
> Or is it that the atrocity isn’t highly relevant to discuss on a hacker news thread, and also hard to have people follow HN Guidelines? (Much more likely explanation)

The guidelines themselves say posts should be "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

No I don't think it's a cabal of Jews, but I've seen posts get flagged for being critical of YC or OpenAI, and just a few days ago PG's essay got flagged seemingly just for vague references to the current political climate. There are clearly people using the flagging system to take down posts they don't like and it's always justified with "the post was off topic" even though there are no objective rules for what is on topic.