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Comment by sachel1sta | Hacker News Reader

Your text is nearly white within 19 minutes of being posted.

It's obvious HackerNews is not safe--from certain people.

It's plainly off-topic, and the worst kind of off-topic tangent: the kind that makes a thread even more generically political.

CEO of Google emails being used in a court of law to secure a negative outcome for Google, is off-topic in a sub thread about the CEO of Google being able to edit Google emails and other data?

Did Eric challenge the authenticity of the emails? I've never heard him do so.

I now understand why you couldn't specify in what way my comment was "off-topic".

More likely it's because the comment has nothing to do with editing users' content — unless it's meant to suggest that someone else faked Eric Schmidt's email (from the time 5+ years ago when he was CEO of Google) to incriminate him.

The comment has everything to do with editing content. Schmidt was effectively convicted on the content of his emails. I don't think Schmidt was able to edit an email used in that case.

It is a positive example of what the poster I responded to was claiming.

Additionally, this CEO (now of Alphabet) has continued to engage in seemingly illegal behavior over Google email. I'm not aware of Eric disputing any of these allegations, even though I have confronted him on them multiple times.

Then you should have made it clear what you meant because your post looks like a completely offtopic rant.

Perhaps you thought that.

Others saw something different.

  > Additionally, this CEO (now of Alphabet)

You seem to be mixing up Eric Schmidt and Larry Page. People have seen them in the same room together.

What illegal behavior is that?

The broader topic is about some golang moderators not wanting to associate with a company because of that company's actions. The downvoted comment simply extends the reasoning to other areas. It's pretty relevant imo.

And was supplanted with a fake news story about a fictional character?

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