Why is this flagged? Seems to fit the submission criterion of "anything that good hackers would find interesting" and "gratifies intellectual curiosity" pretty cleanly... e.g. government technology contracts and data analysis, privacy and surveillance, a major tech company and its business practices, the intersection of technology and public policy, etc.
hamburga · 9h ago
There are a lot of people here who reflexively flag anything remotely close to US politics.
consumer451 · 5h ago
If this post was flagged only by users, wouldn't I see the "vouch" link/button, as a user who has that power? I do not see that link on this post.
Genuine question. I have always wondered about this.
anigbrowl · 4h ago
Good point. I don't see it either, whereas I normally do.
lawn · 9h ago
It contains negative implications about the current administration so it gets flagged.
zhengiszen · 3h ago
They're afraid. Sadly everything is going smoothly for the same actors that surely will import the same process learned and applied in Gaza and in Ukraine. The combination of technology and far right policies. The end of privacy will be the last of our worries.
ok_dad · 8h ago
Hacker News tries to seem like they don’t push the party line, but they do. There’s no moderation log, there’s little access to any data around moderation, etc. and so my assumption is that this place is heavily bent towards whatever the powerful YC folks want us to read.
They don’t want us to fight this administration for some reason, and it seems that the wealthy and powerful want this government for the USA right now, so they flag and remove everything that’s negative about it.
cempaka · 7h ago
Silicon Valley has been a military-intelligence creation from the beginning, and no one climbs all that high within it who hasn't made peace with that reality. Since the erstwhile tech industry liberal bent -- which is now being walked back with a (transparently astroturfed) "vibe shift", not to mention complicity with an open genocide -- is no longer tenable, more open censorship and labor discipline is the order of the day.
duxup · 16h ago
The party that railed big tech and big government is in fact their biggest fan.
It doesn’t matter what the GOP claims, they don’t have any ideology or ideas that you can count on.
aspenmayer · 11h ago
Every accusation is an admission.
disposition2 · 16h ago
This administration might be one of the better examples of the importance of knowing when to ask, “should I do something” vs “can I do something”. And it seems like a lot of the guardrails / historically unwritten rules, that have recently gone the way of the dodo, helped ensure the “should” was considered along with the “can”.
Interesting times to live in
mathattack · 10h ago
It boggles my mind that this doesn't already exist.
hamburga · 12h ago
How long until Palantir gets a contract to do the same work for Russia?
ytpete · 11h ago
Is there any way we would know if they already did?
Genuine question. I have always wondered about this.
They don’t want us to fight this administration for some reason, and it seems that the wealthy and powerful want this government for the USA right now, so they flag and remove everything that’s negative about it.
It doesn’t matter what the GOP claims, they don’t have any ideology or ideas that you can count on.
Interesting times to live in
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