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> This is stupid.

Partisan threads are bad enough without stooping to this. Please edit out name-calling from your comments here, as the HN guidelines ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

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name-calling

I don't see any name calling.

Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and you'll understand the sense in which the term is used here.

Is this argument / debate the reason this post has been flagged?

There are ways to ask questions about restrictive clauses in licences that don't cause shitty threads, which is something that almost always happens when US politicians are named.

You're right - lessons learnt ;)

[flagged] on a post means users flagged it.

Hacker News could do better by recognizing the substance of coarsely-articulated statements instead of engaging in pedantic tone policing.

If you can point to a large internet community where people being jerks to each other results in substantive discourse, I'd love to see it.

However, please don't routinely create many throwaway accounts here. We ban those. HN is a community. Anonymity is fine, but users should have some continuous identity that other users can relate to. Otherwise we might as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be an entirely different site.

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