Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT

2 days ago (archive.org)

Discussion (167 points, 21 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46361024

  • Why is the other one already off the front page? That is weird. It has a ton of upvotes.

    • Super strange when there are several on the front page, older, with less votes and less comments. To say it’s off topic is a little narrow minded given the current environment

    • Many flag political/politically charged topics. The arguments which such topics often result in tend to overflow into other threads.

    • You can watch these articles get user-flagged off the front page in real time by just refreshing. Lots of pro-administration brigading to censor this article (and similar ones).

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    • There's a cohort here who impulsively downvote anything critical of the prez or a couple other such subjects. A small group is able to spoil the ranking determined by a much larger number of people upvoting.

      Flags are weighted much more heavily than upvotes. So as long as there's a flag-happy minority cohort around, they have their way.

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Fascinating how this got leaked. A TV station in Canada accidentally ran the original episode version, implying that this was pulled super late and the episode was completely in the can.