Comment by dang
5 months ago
Moderators didn't touch this. Users flagged it.
That's nearly always the case when you see [flagged] on a submission, btw. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
(It's a bit more complex with comments, but also the majority of [flagged] comments are flagged by users, not mods.)
Well... can you remove the flag, please? Why in the world are we not supposed to be talking about one of the most influential, powerful people - a tech icon of all things - in all of humanity's history doing a Nazi salute on stage to thunderous applause?
It seems entirely disingenuous to come into this thread and pretend you are entirely separated from the flagging of this post when you are actively supporting it!
HN's principle is to have intellectually curious conversation about topics that gratify intellectual curiosity. It seems pretty obvious that this isn't that.
More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42776410
History is watching, and you are complicit. How long are you going to justify censoring anyone against the Grand Free Speech Absolutist? What is going to be _your_ red line?
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Also, I’m pretty sure dang has manually unflagged political topics in the past, though I don’t have a list handy.
That's true. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... has lots of explanation of how we approach this, and should also explain why the current story isn't one that we would turn off flags on.
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