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HN censored Marco Arment?

38 points by bakli ↗ HN
I tried submitting this link - https://marco.org/2016/10/17/shame-on-y-combinator and it said the link was already submitted, so I started looking for the link to read the discussion but couldn't find it anywhere including https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=marco.org

Was it censored?

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_pius
Here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12731270
tobr
So it was flagged and marked dead without explanation. That does not look good.
tptacek
Users flag things. Not the moderators. From what I can see, the only thing any of the moderators have done with any of these stories is rescue them from user flags.
tobr
Your reply reads like I blamed the moderators, which I didn't. I just think it doesn't look good when critical stories disappear from a forum.
tptacek
Lots of things don't look good. We can't be captive to appearances all the time.
imartin2k
It deserves to be on the front page as part of a debate, that's for sure. Weird that it's been flagged.
epaga
So much for "We should talk to each other more, not less."
epaga
After realizing the posts were marked as dead automatically due to flags, I take this back.
bakli
Looks like even this thread has been silenced.
epaga
I've reached out to HN via email, will be interested in their response.
epaga
For posterity's sake, here is their response:

It was flagged by users, and then vouched for. As of this morning that submission was not dead, but isn’t the active discussion, which is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12733024. Moderators haven’t penalized these posts at all.

tptacek
I flagged it, as I'm sure others did: it's meta-drama, and it's based on a false claim about censorship on HN. The HN moderators have done the exact opposite of censoring this story.
cpt1138
I think we should all read this http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-on...

Thiel has stated that giving women the vote was a bad idea.

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...

Basically he believes in the rest of the country outside the city and the old ways in which they were not so desperate. Its not hard to understand or be somewhat compassionate.

We are trying to exert our "power" to get rid of him, and in the exact same way he is exerting his "power."