Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Conservatives are champions of free speech unless it concerns Palestine and Israel. In this case any vague rule is good to supress it and impose full censorship.
it's a tale as old as time for people to believe the things they're in support of get censored while the things they dislike are over-represented. HN is genuinely relatively divisive on basically any issue, as humans we tend to be a bit blind to these things though.
The wildest one was the Tom Alexandrovich story. That guy literally committed sex crimes while in town for a tech conference and was let off - he works in our field, but it immediately got buried.
Palantir is openly named after a device of fantasy Satan. I don't think we need to wonder how evil they're being, it's always worse that you think they're being. That's what they're for.
The moderator dang has actually responded to several comments about their editorial stance re israel-palestine. I don't have time to find them but I've engaged with him personally on this several times over the last couple years.
Basically it boils down to he thinks we have talked about it enough and it annoys him how upset people are about it. And ultimately he considers admiring the technology used in war machines (and terrorism like the pager attack) to be clearly within the editorial remit of HN but that discussing their effects on the people they are used on is borderline so they police it more vigorously.
Ah, they are annoyed that people are upset about the genocide and keep talking about it. Very interesting. Well, that's their right, of course, annoyed that people are not closing their eyes to blatant human rights violations and genocide. I will keep calling it out for what it is: Israel is a genocider state, until it's stopped.
YSK that people get banned here for calling Israel out.
It will be claimed that it's over something else, to maintain plausible deniability. Or that you were starting a flame war.
I'm just saying: this is one of HN's most protected third-rail topics, so I'd advise you to have a backup account and a VPN handy if you want to keep stating the obvious and standing up for the voiceless.
