Comment by fragmede
5 months ago
Ignoring the US politics angle, would this post have been flagged? It's Brian Krebs, back after being DDoSed yet again, reporting on hackers hacking. doxing and swatting people. hacking. That's not of interest on hacker news? If, then, the subject without the political angle, would have been of interest here, then why does adding, yes, a highly contentious topic on top of that, make it of less interest to the community?
The answer is repetition - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42911011 for a longer comment in that vein.
Basically, how interesting a story is varies with its position in the sequence of related stories.