Where the hell is the new Intercept article on HN? The more I see obvious manipulation and malevolent flagging on this site the less I want to visit it.
I don't pay close attention to the way HN does these things, but I recall that NSA was one of the terms that the HN moderators chose to penalize. Or they could have manually penalized it as well.
HN is a sandbox that YC created for folks to play in. Their sandbox, their rules. I'm not criticizing you for complaining about the Intercept article being buried on the fourth page or whatnot (I would have more liberal rules if it were my sandbox), but merely saying it's probably not that productive to complain about theirs.
I personally find this community as a haven away from the types of stories that will be featured on the 10 O'clock news and multiple front pages of common news sites. Especially anything that's highly political.
I enjoy reading about new programming frameworks, thoughtful and fresh approaches to launching a business, or someone that has done something "cool" with any type of "technology". HN is a happy place, and politics are anything but happy.
> HN is a happy place, and politics are anything but happy.
makes me want to puke a little. I think you are probably right though, I can sense a major demographic on this site who are eager to ignore controversial issues. As I said earlier, maybe it's time to move on, but to where I am not sure.
I'll gladly read about such issues when I'm in the mood for it from a source where such articles are expected: r/worldnews, firstlook.org/theintercept/, aljazeera.com, etc.