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I'm interested in politics, I follow it closely and I am a member of a political party. But I don't want to see it here, I don't think HN is a good venue for it.

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That's a shame, because the things we discuss here have political consequences, and it's irresponsible to ignore them.

I wouldn't want to see posts strictly about politics on the front page, but I think discussion of political topics that relate to technology and our industry is not only interesting, but necessary.

It's not irresponsible to keep discussions in their right place, of course politics will seep in everywhere but if I want to talk about the US pulling out of the Paris agreement (and I do) then there are better places to do that than here.

The problem is "the right place" is always somewhere else.

"political discussion" gets 252,000,000 results on Google.

This simply isn't true.

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