This article went from #3 on the front page of HN to #260 in ten minutes[1]. Talk about someone wanting to keep you from reading about it!
The topic of the app's launch was on the front page for several hours last week and generated a huge discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44496729
This latest story doesn't seem to carry any "significant new information", which is a critical qualifier for a new HN thread.
The article's topic is the quote by the United States Attorney General on a cable news interview, and even that was made – and reported – last week when the topic was still active on HN. It's a detail in the overall story that has already had major coverage here. If there was an arrest or some other material legal action, that would likely warrant a new thread.
Edit: I updated the comment to remove the incorrect implication that there is any new information in the article at all.
Not disagreeing with the action just curious about the ambiguity in your comment
This feels like an illustration of just how unhinged the US has become, that the _AG threatening a private citizen_ is not considered major news. The frog is, if not boiled, at least sous-vide'd.
Here it is referenced in two comments in that thread, posted over five days ago:
there was only a single time i can recall there being something completely nuked and me raising an eyebrow being like "uhhhh that's pretty sus" but couldnt even tell you what it was about, it was years ago. and i can chalk that up to me having my own biases too