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Moderation is speech too. It's not possible to have an apolitical discussion of matters related to a plutocrat that offers a $100M vote bounty. To selectively silence dissenters is to be even more political than to just debate with them.

Besides, Tesla is a car company. There are dozens of weekly articles about it, compared to maybe one for all the other automakers put together. This has effectively turned HN into an advertising platform for Musk. If moderation was sincere and not pretextual, the entire topic would be banned.

I'm 100% sure I'm not making matters worse by posting. At a minimum it creates a data trail for the bots' actions. It also prevents giving the impression that the audience has been 'tamed' into full Musk complacency by the bots.

BTW, it's funny that my replies to the flagged message are getting flagged too. If someone can read the original message they can read the replies as well. Digging into the hidden reply chain just to flag more stuff gives away the automated nature of the flagging.