In the january archive [0] I can't find this flagged story [1]. Was it already fallen off when flag-killed? Or doesn't it catch these?

So many important tech related debates lately being silenced by mass flagging. Luckily they remain in https://news.ycombinator.com/active

(I feel like "everything" is now "political" and thus not wanted here. Since Musk for instance now is a political figure, one cannot discuss X even when not a partisan topic about X. Or when some guy does big swoops that affect tech world wide, it's also not possible to discuss here. And I miss it, because I think HN is full of great people and I would like your take on these events.)

[0]: https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals/blob/ma... [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46503199

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pixl97 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>everything" is now "political"

Old tech nerds area surprised that technology took over the world and drives politics and want to hide their head in the sand.

Now, every article being political does suck, and we should probably drip feed it on the site, so the technology itself it what is primarily talked about, but ignoring it all together is dangerous.

	▲	orthecreedence an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, a bunch of Randian anarcho-capitalists-turned-fascist gain immense amount of power through tech, but any mention of "Hmm, maybe this is a bad idea??" gets "SSSHHHH!! No politics, please!!"

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dfxm12 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

In a sense, "everything" is "political", and always has been. It's practically a given, since politics is literally about governing our lives, technical standards, industry regulations, etc. A ton of news, especially that worth discussing, happens within this lens. Now, if, for example, HN allows stories about twitter to be killed opaquely and selectively, this is a political act in and of itself & the selection is telling.

	▲	Imustaskforhelp 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> In a sense, "everything" is "political", and always has been. It's practically a given, since politics is literally about governing our lives, technical standards, industry regulations, etc. A ton of news, especially that worth discussing, happens within this lens. Now, if, for example, HN allows stories about twitter to be killed opaquely and selectively, this is a political act in and of itself & the selection is telling. This still does a huge disservice to how the degradation can happen in discussions when now Everything is becoming more political so much so that one side of the party needs to flag what the other party says and this division is running deep creating a large seperation.