Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online

This is on the front page.

I haven’t seen this aspect of the ruling discussed anywhere else either, so I don’t know why you’re picking on HN in particular.

Where should we turn to be more promptly and fully informed about questions like these?

That's because we're hackers and we're too cool to be bothered with pesky politics. /s

On a more serious note: HN tries hard to stay in its lane, but there are quite a few people on here that are engaging in political activism, but that every now and then make a (sometimes even useful) tech comment to avoid the activism ban hammer.

Personally I don't really see the difference between 'curious conversation' vs 'click bait' and 'rage bait'. Examples abound, but the balance as it is struck right now picks a reasonable median between 400 hour work weeks for the people involved and some kind of manageable work/life balance. It works, but barely and it is still worth reading but I find myself getting more and more cynical reading HN. Oh, and of course we really don't do humor.

And some people here really do care about both privacy and freedom, and some people are not absolutists but rather see that there are reasonable limits to both of these. Another thing to remember is that HN is global, you're going to find a predominantly English speaking audience here but so many people around the world manage to express themselves reasonably well in English that you will find all kinds of cultures represented here, including ones that have entirely different ideas on subjects such as freedom and privacy. And then there are the tech bros who want freedom and privacy for themselves and less of both of those for the rest of us.

What sites/communities keep up with things like this more actively? I’d love to read them too. Drop a link!

You must be hurting from patting yourself in the back. You should first remember that front page is a matter not only of interest to the community, but timing, luck and moment. It's meaningless that it took a week to be in the front page. It's there now and we are discussing it. And it also doesn't diminish the value of other discussions that is dear to HN readers.

If you feel like antagonizing an entire community, maybe you should consider just leaving it and finding your own group. It'll be hard for us but we'll make it here without you.

It's right on the front page of HN and there's a lively discussion. I'm just not sure your criticism holds up.

It's kind of funny to be whining about this in a frontpage post here, but that aside, this doesn't add anything to discussion. You should probably keep these things to yourself.

It received 200+ comments at the time it happened... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44397799

A week old? That's practically ancient, and certainly no longer applies to the situation today!

Exposure != Accumulated comments, especially if you aren't counting distinct authors.

Dig a little deeper, and you'll see that particular submission ("US Supreme Court Upholds Texas Porn ID Law") was visible on the front page for barely five minutes [0] before something abruptly exiled it to to the end of the second page and a slide into obscurity.

In contrast, I randomly picked something from several pages down today that which looks bland with triple-digit comments, and got "A Typology of Candianisms." Turns out that has even more comments (327!) and was visible on the front page for about twenty hours [1].

Quite a difference, isn't it? I'm not against the idea that HN needs to guard its content-mix, but we should not live in denial about it happening.

[0] https://hnrankings.info/44397799/

[1] https://hnrankings.info/44515101/