Why is this flagged? Too political? Not technical? Off topic?
Of course we can flag things, but I am not fan doing so silently.
Of course we can flag things, but I am not fan doing so silently.
"pro-Israel narrative"??? On HN? You must be reading a different site.
While I didn't flag this, it's really not hard to see how (a) there is nothing about it that is relevant to tech, hacking or entrepreneurship, but more importantly (b) it's the topic that predictably leads to a dumpster fire of comments.
With the known sophistication of Israel's tech and PR sectors, it's less of a cabal and more of an inevitability.
That's simply false. This article, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44731958, from 6 days ago has 734 votes and 924 comments when I pulled it. Searches for "gaza" and "israel" bring up a lot of other recent stories, some with over a thousand votes.
A lot of HNers (myself included) will flag stuff if it's highly likely to devolve into a flamewar with no substantive discussion, especially if it's related to a news story that's highly likely to be covered in loads of other places online. Unfortunately, articles about vinyl records or Sudan tend to elicit more informative discussion than many articles about Gaza.
Reading the article I find nothing to object in there as such, and so I was wondering why this would be flagged. "Oh heck someone flagged it" is not quite good enough an answer for me.