[monadic2]

Perhaps I'm wrong but this would be contrary to the nationalistic policies of the state.

Personally, primary sources are what I come to the forum for—I understand the resulting discussion might be toxic, but the post itself is certainly valuable.

[dang]

Fortunately these things are easily separable. If you have a slug in your spinach, the solution is to take out the slug and keep the spinach.

[shard972]

Ah so censorship of political opinions? Even the minor side comments, got it.

[dang]

That's not the clearest of way of framing it if you want to understand what we do. I've explained this in detail in past comments:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Some good threads to start with might be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902396.

If you or anyone takes a look at those past discussions and has a question that's not answered there, I'd like to know what it is; and if anyone knows a better solution, I'd really like to know what it is. Just make sure you've familiarized yourself with the material first, because if it's something simple like "just ban politics" or "just leave the threads alone", I've answered many times already why it won't work.