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Why is this flagged? As a former foreign TN-1 visa holder, this sort of thing is (a) topically relevant to me, _qua_ software engineer, and (b) technically interesting.

What is the valence of deciding that 'curiosity' (the HN gold standard for relevance) does not include topics like this?

HN, blink twice if you can hear me; the billionaires seem to be foisting a worldview on us through you.

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The idea that the US operates under a system of laws is now too controversial for HN.

For a real answer, if something being posted to HN only requires it be relevant to someone and be interesting, doesn't that mean that anything is allowed? There is currently a conflict between groups of HN users as to what is reasonable to post here and what isn't.

That is how the guidelines read. If practice varies from theory, one must ask who, and what, is being practiced.

Well not exactly. The guidelines are contradictory. They say that "Anything that good hackers would find interesting" is on topic, but "Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports" are off topic. How do you resolve the difference? It's just a cultural decision as to what is allowed and what isn't.

Discussions about visas and immigration have been a core HN feature for the past decade: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts

"Just" is doing a lot of work in that problem restatement. It's not a word typically found in front of the phrase "cultural decision", although I commend the baldness of your ideological commitments.

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