mods are quick to silence anything tangentially political (that is not about US propaganda war), but I'm glad they missed this one.
very relevant to the current climate. It brings up the important distinction between exile, refugee, hedonist. Its very, interesting (?), to see the three groups converging to the same country as you see the contemporary political changes creating refugees on one side, hedonists with their new found money on the other, and exiles in the middle.
Also important the call to how Mail in the 70s was so important to this all. Bringing back the current propaganda wars, this should be a central point on the ongoing talks to add backdoors to whatsapp and many other platforms that were being discussed here last week.
> mods are quick to silence anything tangentially political (that is not about US propaganda war)
Really? Plenty of stuff here could easily be classified political. The US/China threads do descend into absurd jingoism pretty quickly but they are popular and probably why you see them more.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 19.2 ms ] threadvery relevant to the current climate. It brings up the important distinction between exile, refugee, hedonist. Its very, interesting (?), to see the three groups converging to the same country as you see the contemporary political changes creating refugees on one side, hedonists with their new found money on the other, and exiles in the middle.
Also important the call to how Mail in the 70s was so important to this all. Bringing back the current propaganda wars, this should be a central point on the ongoing talks to add backdoors to whatsapp and many other platforms that were being discussed here last week.
Precisely the opposite is true: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... Stories with political overlap are fine if they gratify intellectual curiosity. Flamewars and garden-variety politics don't do that, so we moderate those.
> I'm glad they missed this one
We didn't miss it. We put it in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380), which is why it's on the front page.
Really? Plenty of stuff here could easily be classified political. The US/China threads do descend into absurd jingoism pretty quickly but they are popular and probably why you see them more.