[actionfromafar]

"Please avoid political speech" is often just shorthand for "you are not allowed to talk about how the current rules just so happen to be my rules".

[foogazi]

Flagged!

[sethammons]

And this post was flagged and is no longer on hn front page

[tempodox]

It is in https://news.ycombinator.com/active.

[MSFT_Edging]

It's easy to forget the Hacker website is actually just a VC discussion board and the "avoid politics" is simply "avoid talking about our future business lines"

[actionfromafar]

Haha, yes. I meant more in general discourse though. Maybe HN should shift to "how to prosper in a dictatorship". :)