Aside the topic, but I wonder how HN, as a community, and as a moderation team, weighs this on the intellectual curiosity vs primarily politics scale.
This seems politics to me. Very important politics that a lot of people in tech have a special interest for, but politics nonetheless, and much more pressing topics seem to be absent through the on-topic rule.
I tend to dislike it when purely political posts show up here, but I appreciate the ones that intersect with technology, particularly ones that relate to privacy issues.
This site has always been fairly interested in mass surveillance stuff (which is, naturally, inherently political).
It's whatever the mods feel like. For example, posts about Charlie Kirk being assassinated were allowed to stay, and that was basically pure politics.
HN is 90% AI and politics these days, or so it seems.
That rule is ... kind of nonsense anyways.
One can't be intellectually curious and not think about politics. Politics is applied intellectual curiosity.
This does not seem to be a prevalent opinion on here, and I was trying to be diplomatic, but I guess it still comes out as "why is it OK to post / comment politics here if it's a less contentious topic many people on HN care about, but I regularly get downvoted for even relating information to my association with a demographic group forcefully enlisted to the front of the culture war".
Orange site bad.
Because this has a tech angle and its local. Plus it connects to big tech companies collecting data on everyone.
Which is different from a Gaza discussion which has no tech angle and two sides telling each other what the other side has done.
Calling anything "local" to HN is pretty funny US-centrism, for someone posting before 8 AM EST. And I'd never call what's happening in Gaza a "culture war", that would seem trivializing - although my issue seems to be escalating more and more as well.
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I'm sorry you feel that way, but it seems kind of crappy of you to devolve into personal attacks. Be better.