Comment by TimTheTinker
1 day ago
Since it was censored in some significant parts of the world, including Silicon Valley, it could arguably be on-topic.
1 day ago
Since it was censored in some significant parts of the world, including Silicon Valley, it could arguably be on-topic.
Strong disagree.
Gay porn is censored in a lot of Muslim countries, that doesn't make it on-topic for HN.
Generally, porn isn't included in "anything that good hackers would find interesting". Censored news arguably is.
Lots of hackers find porn very interesting. In fact, my first "real job" as a hacker was for a company with ties to the 1-900 industry that had decided to expand out onto the internet (not just to sell porn). Stories about porn would be interesting, submissions of nothing but pornography itself ("because it's censored!") are not.
I would be more sympathetic to the argument that this is relevant if the submission was an article about media censorship, or CBS's audience or leadership, and how said censorship, audience, or leadership relates to technology or emerging trends in media.
But this is literally just a controversial TV news broadcast, that people of one political persuasion say was "censored" and people of another political persuasion say was held off the air "temporarily" until it met network fact-checking standards. That sort of political bickering is most uninteresting, and is most definitely not why I've been reading HN for the past few decades.
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