Abrego Garcia Was Beaten and Tortured in El Salvador Prison, Lawyers Say

no, there's just a concerted flagging campaign for anything about atrocities perpetrated by the US government.

Gary Tan is a right wing tool, so this makes perfect sense.

Why does everyone want to invent a conspiracy these days? There's no "concerted flagging campaign". We, the users, are here to uphold the content policies of HN, and we do so by voting to flag posts that violate it. The content policy is what it is, and it doesn't play favorites. There have been MANY political posts in recent times that have not been flagged. Here's a handful in just the last week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44398710 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44438884 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44448854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44438360 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44434239

This is new information about the type and extent of extrajudicial torture (and likely murder) the USA is engaging in against its perceived political enemies. This hasn't been discussed in depth since Abu Ghraib.

One of the articles you linked to is flagged.

>uphold the content policies of HN

This follows the content policies of HN.

It clearly does play favorites when we are hearing the first firsthand account of an "unsaleable prison", but users will vote on the 20th AI article posted here.

Also, I expect better from the HN community when it comes to data. 5 (4, in reality. Because one of your links is flagged now) articles in a week not flagged for a forum that receives hundreds of submissions per day does not even meet the minimum statistical threshold.

I've been taking glances at the front page and top daily submissions for a week and was disenheartened that there were no articles on the Big Beautiful Bill that gained traction, or weren't flagged. I'm not particularly surprised at this point given historical trends, but a shame nonetheless.

This has already been posted in a thread that was not flagged:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44451722

So no, it's not new information.

And? It was flagged after I posted. You're going to ignore the fact that 4/5 were not flagged and there are literally hundreds of examples of unflagged political posts if you actually bother to do a search?

>Also, I expect better from the HN community when it comes to data. 5 (4, in reality. Because one of your links is flagged now) articles in a week not flagged for a forum that receives hundreds of submissions per day does not even meet the minimum statistical threshold.

I really have to question if you ever look at your own biases, because you just made up a story that agrees with your preexisting viewpoint. For the links I posted, I literally just searched "Trump" and took a few of the many unflagged posts from that search. It was in no way exhaustive. Why did you assume it was? It's quite easy to see that in a week, there are literally hundreds of unflagged political posts. My intention was to post an example, not a list of all of them.

Ah, a post with 9 votes and no discussion. But it was technically there, so this post with discussion and more eyeballs should be removed. That's a great way to shut down discussion.

Yes, there are plenty of unflagged political posts. I don’t deny that at all. I also acknowledge that my experience may be purely confirmation bias and nothing more. Having said that…

I follow the HN raw RSS feed, so I see a lot of articles that don’t make the front page. I find that pretty much any article that refers to trans people is flagged. Many — not all — articles that are show the Trump regime or Musk in a negative light are likely to be flagged.

YMMV.