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President says broadcasters should lose licenses for criticizing him

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145 points perihelions | 1 comments | 18 Sep 25 19:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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LarsDu88 ◴[18 Sep 25 20:18 UTC] No.45294473[source]▶
How many minutes before HN takes this one down? Seen at least 5 political posts get shut down today
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AlexandrB ◴[18 Sep 25 20:20 UTC] No.45294496[source]▶
HN has a general rule against posts about politics that occasionally gets ignored for particularly noteworthy events.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

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1. jleyank ◴[18 Sep 25 20:33 UTC] No.45294665[source]▶
How will US politics affect HN startup's potential market? How will it affect their ability to form, hire and retain staff? Will it affect the H1b's that underpin all sorts of programming efforts. Will it lead to VC money sloshing into Europe/UK? ... There's all sorts of HN-relevant things that are impacted damn near daily by US politics.

Not counting all of the impact on health, medicine, science, ... One can keep flagging away, but if you're going to watch the cash flow elsewhere and the jobs remain open, I would think some concern is merited. And if, somehow, people working in this area realize what their work has helped produced...