Comment by giraffe_lady

I'm not arguing for it to be a general current affairs site. But it should certainly be able to address current affairs that emerge from or have a strong influence on technology. Especially the technology that is made and shaped by a significant portion of its userbase, the shaping of which it has a significant influence on.

It's not just that the palestinian genocide is impactful to the world, it is that american tech companies are impactful to the palestinian genocide. This article was specifically a discussion about our role in this atrocity and a call to action to us as creators and users of technology to end it.

Within that context your editorial decision to shut down this conversation, and your invoking your mandate to keep HN functioning in this specific way, is explicitly coming out on the side of order vs justice. I am not exaggerating when I say you are going to be in history books for this one. We are all going to regret this.