[wunderland]

This happened two days ago, but I didn't hear anything about it until today. I am a heavy HN user. Why wasn't this on the front page?

Edit: it appears that every post about Israel is getting flagged (often after receiving tons of upvotes and often hundreds of comments): https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...

where is this censorship coming from? @dang?

[paxys]

Discussion about it has been constantly flagged and removed (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40087063)

[wunderland]

Wow. I left my parent comment 2 minutes ago and this thread has already been removed from the front page.

Story has 46 points and is 29 minutes old at the time I'm writing this comment.

Are we not allowed to discuss the actions of one of the largest tech companies?

[wbronitsky]

The comments are just a flame war about Israel. Maybe that's why so many people are flagging it.

[paxys]

There are ~0 comments in any of the linked threads that are pro or anti war/Israel/Palestine. The discussion is about this specific situation at Google, and is flagged by people who want to censor it.

[wbronitsky]

That's just not the case here. Most of the comments are taking a stance on Israel/Palestine and arguing from there. There are a ton of comments likening Israel to the Nazis. That's pretty anti-Israel, no matter what side you're on. I mean, even look at the sibling post to yours. Its anti-Israel conspiracy theories.

[CommanderData]

This post most likely was identified and went out to Israeli disinformation groups to be spam flagged.

Or HN and it's mods are bias because other political piece's are posted here often.

[riversflow]

What is there to talk about? Seriously. This is just status quo behavior for businesses, and why do we care about some tiny minority of Googlers protesting and being fired?

The only thing I can think of to say about this is how disconnected people are if they think this is so problematic. How is work supposed to be done if everyone complains, protests and disrupts work? The top comment on the thread right now says as much too.

[JohnMakin]

Pretty disappointing to see this kind of censorship on this site - but lotsa googlers hang out here

[wunderland]

I know lots of googlers-- many hadn't heard about this as well.

I also think many googlers are opposed to Google's military contracts with Israel, but likely don't know this is happening.

[JohnMakin]

what’s very funny is i made this comment well after the thread was flagged and removed from the front page, it garnered a bunch of upvotes, but then hours after it suddenly gets a spike of downvotes.

I see this trend a lot on this site whenever saying anything even slightly derogatory about google. Might be a fun side project to work on to quantify this.

[ChrisArchitect]

"heavy user"? Hundreds of comments on multiple posts that made the front page. They've been there for people to see, and direction to the main posts via dupes. The discussion continues on flagged posts.

[nickthegreek]

It was.

https://www.google.com/search?q=hacker+news+google+protest+s...

[Culonavirus]

It was plastered all over Twitter and elsewhere. I think it's good that there's a platform that is mostly unmoderated, you can go there (like I do) for news and social/politics issues or whatever. Make your own conclusions. But I prefer the tighter moderation here, interesting techy stuff, that's what makes me come back here, not random drama and flamewars.

[cj]

The points to comments ratio on the first few on the list are out of whack.

I’m pretty sure if # of comments exceeds the number of upvotes, the story is down-weighted automatically.

Flagging stories also automatically downweights if enough people flag, I believe

That’s not the only variable though.

[altairprime]

Email the mods and ask them to correct the issues you’re seeing. @dang doesn’t work at HN, and you’ll need to send that email to get his attention and reply here.

[raddan]

It was on every major news network I follow. Maybe most people on HN thought it was already old news.