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

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115 points perihelions | 3 comments | 03 Jul 25 06:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.607s | source
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potato-peeler ◴[03 Jul 25 10:12 UTC] No.44453455[source]▶
Meta comment: have noticed some posts get flagged. Is it because they are political?
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bananapub ◴[03 Jul 25 11:43 UTC] No.44454002[source]▶
no, there's just a concerted flagging campaign for anything about atrocities perpetrated by the US government.
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IAmGraydon ◴[03 Jul 25 16:19 UTC] No.44456612[source]▶
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

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1. sundaeofshock ◴[03 Jul 25 18:50 UTC] No.44458080[source]▶
One of the articles you linked to is flagged.
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2. IAmGraydon ◴[04 Jul 25 05:26 UTC] No.44461367[source]▶
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?
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3. sundaeofshock ◴[05 Jul 25 21:50 UTC] No.44475853[source]▶
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.