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Regarding the removal of that article: it's not "vested interests" flagging that necessarily. Many users (including me) may have either found it offensive or overly political, and flagged it because it consisted of inflammatory political ranting where the political talking points distracted too much from any substance that article might have had.

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Have you actually read the article? None of that applied. It was extremely factual and well constructed with a mildly left of center bias. Nothing compared to the extreme libertarian bias of half the non-technical articles on HN.

This is just a knee jerk reaction to the word "socialist".

There was nothing offensive of inflammatory about the article unless you consider the very existence of progressive though offensive.

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