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i dont see why, hacker news is loaded with enthusiastic young entrepreneurs and I posted this thinking some brilliant protege of Peter Thiel would be inspired to "disrupt" the "surveilling and abducting people" industry with the promise of a $280M reward....

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People will flag articles when they don't feel safe to participate in the discussion, especially if they hold views that appears to be dissenting. An open and thriving environment for discussion is one that welcomes people of different views and opinions.

A strong indicator of an article that get flagged, and which also trigger the flame war detection on the site, is a bunch of comments that are either grayed out or flagged. The one will feed the other into a death spiral for the article.

That doesn't make sense. People feel that certain topics aren't safe to discuss, so they flag the posts on that topic so that no one can discuss them?

I think it's way more likely they're censoring topics because the posts that get flagged are usually criticism about AI, MAGA, or Zionism.

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