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by wglb 5186 days ago
This would fall under the heading of "political discussion".
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Yet amazingly the 40,000 "OH HAI SEXISM" posts that blanketed HN for the last week don't?
That's at least arguing about whether or not the tech industry has a widespread issue. This is singling out one guy (whose best-known work already had a mixed reputation among nerds). Even if it turns out Mozilla really is being run by a reactionary religious zealot, it doesn't seem to affect their technical direction nor the use of their donated funds.
The guidelines http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html specifically call out politics as being off-topic.
No - this would fall under the heading of "human rights discussion".
A single person's donation to support a questionable proposition - I'm not sure that's a human rights discussion. In any case, neither of those are good web forum topics.