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by HexDecOctBin 463 days ago
@dang Why is this flagged? Even without the politics, knowing that a large cohort is not going to attend in an important piece of information.
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there is another, better UI for HN: https://hn.algolia.com/ set it for the last 24 hours and enjoy uncensored content
It's always fun when you make something only to realize it already exists. It's a pain that I'm sure you know as well.
It's flagged because it's one-sided political activism. I mostly support the first EO that is on that front page. What am I supposed to do? 1) Post here and defend it, then get in a flame war with people who disagree? 2) bite my lip because we're not supposed to support Trump's actions? I'm not allowed to support the elected president because it's not popular?

I'm sure there's a left-leaning tech group you can join where everyone agrees with you. But this post doesn't belong here, and neither do flame wars.

This is insane, everything that criticize US and current gov is flagged. Really disappointing and frightening. As a European citizen who reads European news, it was really strange not to see topics about the deterioration of US relations with its allies and its closer ties with Russia on this site. It was major news in the EU and completely silent here.
To be fair, most of those are news, not hacker news. But I suspect the hacker relevant ones also got that treatment.
I can easily sympathize with those who want HN to be some kind of bubble to where they can escape from the/their troubles. (Using the flag feature for this is not what I would do, or ever did.)

I use https://hckrnews.com it shows flagged posts too.

the fact that dang refuses to reinstate the thread even 6 hours later is worrying me, this is 100% a valid topic for HN
He's not some kind of 0-24 robot, come on. (Yes, I also think it's HN related.)