[lexh]

Why is this flagged? Seems to fit the submission criterion of "anything that good hackers would find interesting" and "gratifies intellectual curiosity" pretty cleanly... e.g. government technology contracts and data analysis, privacy and surveillance, a major tech company and its business practices, the intersection of technology and public policy, etc.

[lawn]

It contains negative implications about the current administration so it gets flagged.

[zhengiszen]

They're afraid. Sadly everything is going smoothly for the same actors that surely will import the same process learned and applied in Gaza and in Ukraine. The combination of technology and far right policies. The end of privacy will be the last of our worries.

[hamburga]

There are a lot of people here who reflexively flag anything remotely close to US politics.

[consumer451]

If this post was flagged only by users, wouldn't I see the "vouch" link/button, as a user who has that power? I do not see that link on this post.

Genuine question. I have always wondered about this.

[bathtub365]

I’ve only seen the vouch link show up for things that are [flagged][dead]

[sillyfluke]

Yeah, I vaguely remember dang saying that they might consider allowing users to unflag posts, but I think he did confirm that currently flagging cannot be undone by non-moderator users. Currently the site errs on the side of flagging for that reason. I think there was a tweet from pg saying that they were talking about the possibility of giving unflagging rights to karma users with dang, but I'm going completely off memory here.

[anigbrowl]

Good point. I don't see it either, whereas I normally do.

[aspenmayer]

It has to be [flagged][dead] to vouch from what I understand.

[jgalt212]

Maybe somebody doesn't like me. My two most recent posts (3 months apart) were flagged. As far as flagged materials go, I find them both pretty much within bounds for HN.

[IAmGraydon]

Pretty much anything with Trump in the title is going to get flagged as this community really dislikes content that tends to devolve into a flamewar. It is a bit strange that your other post about MS AI data centers was flagged, though.

[ok_dad]

Hacker News tries to seem like they don’t push the party line, but they do. There’s no moderation log, there’s little access to any data around moderation, etc. and so my assumption is that this place is heavily bent towards whatever the powerful YC folks want us to read.

They don’t want us to fight this administration for some reason, and it seems that the wealthy and powerful want this government for the USA right now, so they flag and remove everything that’s negative about it.

[cempaka]

Silicon Valley has been a military-intelligence creation from the beginning, and no one climbs all that high within it who hasn't made peace with that reality. Since the erstwhile tech industry liberal bent -- which is now being walked back with a (transparently astroturfed) "vibe shift", not to mention complicity with an open genocide -- is no longer tenable, more open censorship and labor discipline is the order of the day.