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Why was this flagged? It's surprising to see something from NPR get flagged. I didn't see anything uncontroversial in the content.

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It's political news: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

I wish this ‘guideline’ or any guideline would attempt to even define what the moderation team considers to be ‘political’ because it seems like the community itself cannot agree on a universal-enough term that would apply to the types of discussions where politics and technology may intersect.

I think the issue is not with the content, but with the comments. This entire thread is a hot mess

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