Comment by adventured
13 years ago
I disagree. I'm pretty sure you're misinterpreting the site guidelines.
This: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."
It does not say HN isn't for any politics. It says "most stories about politics" but does not say all or any. It has a further clause which I would argue absolutely pertains to the relatively new phenomenon of PRISM and its cousin programs.
Clearly Snowden / PRISM / etc and other stories like those about Aaron Schwartz fit in perfectly with Hacker News.
All that said without implying that HN should be all about politics. I think there is room on HN for specific political issues that are of interest to hackers.
I think you and I said the same thing with different words (though I'm not sure how "perfect" the fit on these topics is; I'd rather there was 1/10th the amount of NSA coverage, for instance, and even less about Snowden himself).
It's "Swartz", by the way.