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Comment by gingerlime | Hacker News Reader

personal liberty issues and freedom from censorship, government oppression and the likes are fairly regular subjects on HN. I don't think this is vastly different.

Personally I found this interesting and educational. The conflict between preservation of a society, language and its heritage against the personal freedom of parents to name their children. Quite different from cat pictures I'd say.

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A loose naming regulation in an absurdly cold country which already has strange customs isn't important news by any stretch of the imagination.

This is not a serious "personal liberty issue" or "government oppression", have you seen the shit happening in the rest of the world?

PG himself once cautioned about the connection between personal liberty issues and hacking:

  I do believe the TSA stories represent a danger.
  If there's a road from hacking to politics, it's
  probably civil liberties.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934880

So I would be somewhat careful about using that reasoning.

As they relate to technology, yes. That one qualifier is what separates HN from every other political board out there. Flagged for that reason - this is just plain old politics.

Personal liberty issues etc., are fairly regular subjects on HN?

I'm not sure they should be (despite the irony this presents).

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