[haunter]

I'm saying this as someone who doesn't really care about this certain topic:

Either we allow _all_ political content or nothing.

The HN guidelines are incredibly grey and handwave-y

>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

To me HN became to big for its own good since the Covid days. It's like the reddit front page except there are no subs with mods but one big flood (basically /r/all).

If I got to /r/linux, /r/selfhosted/, /r/networking/ or other tech subs I'll probably find what I saw on HN 15 years ago. But less and less here.

[crote]

Banning all political content means banning all mention of open-source software, self-driving cars, anything involving a Big Tech company, anything concerning AI, anything to do with EU or US legislation, anything involving hacking or right to repair, anything about copyright...

Ban all politics, and you ban >99% of HN content. Heck, the very concept of HN itself is political!

[jamesnorden]

Only if you twist the definition of politics so much it becomes a pretzel, but sure.

[tovej]

Politics is how you make decisions collectively. In other words the market is political, LLCs are political, and common rules about how work is licensed is political.

AI is also being used (unfortunately) to make decisions. AI is therefore political (massively so).

[lenkite]

What about AI slop causing the Iranian school-children strike ? US military confirmed that they are using AI to identify targets and provide coordinates. Will you ban that because its "politics" ?

[itsangaris]

bingo