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Comment by amrrs | Hacker News Reader

Politics in Hacker News? http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This isn't politics, it's world events. It's also of interest to the HN community. Seriously, stop making these comments.

Where in HN Guidelines it says that these kind of links are acceptability? This is Redditism!

THE FIRST LINE!

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Doesn't say anything so! Moreover, confirms it's off-topic and it's a TV news too.

This isn't exactly politics is it? It certainly is about geopolitical event, but not quite one party vs another.

Because we all agree that we hate republicans... I mean egypt?

It's political, but it's not US politics, so it seems to pass the 'not political' HN test.

Odd, but seems true from my experience.

If the US were putting journalists in Jail, it would be equally relevant. Geo politics, yes, as in whatever is going on between Egypt & Qatar. But I'm interested whenever folks like journalists, artists etc are targeted. Snowden was all over HN & you might argues that's political too, but relevant to this community nevertheless.

Doesn't it fall under Political? If so isn't it Off-Topic?

Might fall under political events, but still relevant to the community here IMHO

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