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I was saying "flagged" (note the italicization of the last three letters) in comparison to the news article's use of "flags". Of course this HN post should not be flagged, and I agree that a disruptive false positive by first-party AV (which Microsoft only corrected after several days) is newsworthy.

Oh, I'm sorry, my bad.

"this is Microsoft actively removing a competing Web browser" is definitely an allegation implying more bad faith than just Windows Defender had a false positive...

I didn't say they intentionally did it. They were put on notice by top legal authorities, so should try not to even accidentally do things like that again.

That's pre-established as major industry and business news, so it's an additional reason not to flag the post.

Sorry, but even the most well-meaning of people will make mistakes, and it's clear this was an accident with no malice. No need to cast irrelevant aspersions just to grind your personal axe.

I think OP was correcting "flags" to "flagged", not saying the post should be flagged. See the italics.