Air Force erases drone strike data amid criticisms

The default mode of the US government these days: if the public doesn't like something, don't bring it out for public debate. Hide it and hope people forget it exists.

I encourage all users with enough karma to start flagging stories like this.

Politics, rights, religion, and "social outrage of the day" are not the type of stories I want to see on Hacker News. They have nothing to do with computers, hacker culture, startups, or anything even remotely similar to the spirit of this web site. These stories are important, but they aren't meant for Hackers News. There are hundreds of others sites to view and discuss stories of this nature, and I come to Hacker News to get AWAY from all these stories but more and more they seem to be creeping onto the front page.

If you have the karma, use the Flag link the near story or else Hacker News is going to slowly turn into another general purpose karma free-for-all news aggregator.