Comment by mandmandam
3 days ago
It's the same with anything negative related to Musk, DOGE, etc. Examples below.
And you can't just blame people flagging the stories - people ask for them to be whitelisted and are gaslit in response. No surprise, maybe, when Garry Tan and PG are writing fluffy tweets about Musk and the DOGE team.
Examples:
"Musk’s DOGE Goons Surreptitiously Transmitted Reams of White House Data" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43058574.)
Yet prolific commenters here will still praise HN for having such little censorship - it's pretty disturbing.
Yes; this shouldn't have been flagged.
1. Major tech company 2. Major failure of a tech product 3. A public relations disaster for AI
Of course this is a legitimate topic for discussion. Flagging it is bullshit.
All topics that negatively talk about Trump or Elon get flagged. I'll let you come to a conclusion as to why.
I think it's totally reasonable to flag posts about politics that don't connect to tech much (including non-tech stories about Elon/DOGE).
But then there are submissions like this one that are clearly tech-related: prominent AI alignment issues have to be topical here on HN. Or this one I recently submitted which was at the time new breaking revelations about the TikTok ban: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44461158. Also directly tech-related. And both posts have 100+ upvotes while still remaining flagged. It's definitely frustrating.
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