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by ipsin 80 days ago
It really is an indictment of this site that any mention of the genocide in Gaza is flagged almost instantly.
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Note: Flagging on topics like this typically occurs from user action, not moderators.

These are not typical sockpuppet accounts either, but mostly established users that (conjecture) don't care about having the same non-technical debate among non-experts devolve into flaming and namecalling.

See relevant statements and context from moderators here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

The best thing you can do to foster discussion of topics like this is to keep the discussion civil and interesting.

Blaming the site itself is simply incorrect.

I'll give it time, perhaps the post was auto flagged from bots and mods can correct for it. Because political content is often here, and this is also a tech project as well.

If it stays removed this is probably my last interaction on HN.

It's just blatant censorship. There's not even any real political message here. It's just a fucking memorial for the tens of thousands of children (and tens of thousands of adults) that were killed, that someone coded up.

> There's not even any real political message here.

Of course there is, it’s right there in the title of the website. Even making a website to remember these deaths and not other ones is a political choice.

> Of course there is, it’s right there in the title of the website.

What's political about the title?

> Even making a website to remember these deaths and not other ones is a political choice.

Or maybe they realized the other ones are already covered: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38083001

> What's political about the title?

Calling this a genocide is a political message. That doesn’t mean it’s not a valid message, but saying it’s not political is hypocritical.

> Or maybe they realized the other ones are already covered

This one never hit the homepage.

Thanks for replying, I didn't want to engage in something that felt deliberately bad-faith, but you said everything I wanted to.
Please point out where is the bad faith. You seem to think "political" is a negative label that implies criticism. It’s not.
Same with flat earth discussions