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by free652 4 days ago
>Sure someome will argue things here get flagged cause they are political, but I don't buy that.

Are you saying that this isn't political? It's literally about politics. The comments section will be predictable and it will be flagged for that.

Do you disagree?
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hackyhacky 4 days ago
> Are you saying that this isn't political? It's literally about politics.

Sure it's about politics, but it's also about tech. The intersection of politics and tech is a fascinating area, of great interest to many folks on HN, and probably within HN's charter.

I think that merely touching on politics should not be grounds for flagging a submission, even when the specifics are highly controversial (as in this case).

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free652 4 days ago
>Sure it's about politics, but it's also about tech.

Can you point me how was the tech used in this article about *tech* and politics. I didn't see anything.

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hackyhacky 4 days ago
Ctrl-F "digital"
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WhatsName 4 days ago
I do not disagree that there is a political aspect to this article. Todays news on Fable and Mythos are political too. HN has plenty of political articles, yet some are more flagged than others.

I claim there might be a pattern of supression. Are arguing against my main point that it would be good to have more transparency so I can support or refute my claim?

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free652 4 days ago
>I claim there might be a pattern of supression.

Do you want to count how many times words like nazi, genocide, terrorists appears in comments section about Anthropic vs here? Do you see the difference?

But I am going to point to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Blackcore isn't a startup. It was already covered everywhere in the news. So there is no need to post yet again.

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bluealienpie 4 days ago
The purpose is support enterprises which have investment in genocide, the free speech nature of this website was always questionable at best.
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xboxnolifes 3 days ago
Just because something is political and is flagged, does not mean it was flagged because it was political.

HN has plenty of unflagged political topics.

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croes 4 days ago
UK‘s censorship and surveillance is also political.

Do they get flagged?

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