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4 points·italia_em··5 comments

> Why is HN flagging anything related to this topic?

Divisive political topics are usually flagged heavily, especially when they have little connection to any novel subject of intellectual interest.

HN is not, and does not seek to be, a discussion board where the subjects are driven by simply current general interest salience, and just because a topic isimportant doesn't mean it is particularly relevant for HN.

There's lots of discussion fora in the world, HN doesn't have to cover all the space.

From the guidelines:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, 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.

This is not off-topic: the genocide is being enabled by some of the tech companies constantly discussed on HN! and the stories of their employees resisting (or not) is newsworthy for this site, whose readership is largely these employees

Flags come from users. If a mod removed something or it was automatically removed e.g. by a spam filter it would not say [flagged].

I'm not aware of any tech companies whos mission statements declare their intentions to pick sides concerning a 3,000 year old war over the same piece of holy real estate.

Maybe thats why ?

Building tools for one side for everything from bomb targeting systems to “moderation” tools is not picking sides?

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