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>>sundae+(OP)
Why is this flagged? Surely one of the most influential people in the tech space (and the richest man in the world) doing a nazi salute is pertinent to Hacker News?

>>johnet+e3
Users flagged it.

See >>42775519 for more

>>dang+YE
Can you unflag it? What Musk has done is not a small thing.

If Hacker News is about the tech industry then we need to see the tech industry clearly, warts and all.

We cannot run away from it. We cannot memory hole it.

>>zfg+3S
Past experience with this kind of thing by you-know-who does not lend itself to the idea of a substantive discussion.

HN isn't "about the tech industry" per se - its mandate is to discuss topics of intellectual curiosity. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Celebrity troll moves (or whatever this is) don't fit that bill, so in this case I'm inclined to agree with the users who flagged the story.

>>dang+5T
The end result of that is that Musk will be lionized by Hacker News but never criticized.

Your policy settings are wrong.

>>zfg+nT
> lionized by Hacker News but never criticized.

You need only look at any thread involving His Muskness from the past several years to satisfy yourself that is not the case.

>>dang+HT
There are plenty of authors and writers who could discuss political controversies as intellectually profound learning examples, etc. That is a norm in academia, for example. It reflects more on online forums and basic limitations of forum structure and demographics, rather than anything intrinsic about a given topic.

>>calf+TW
I totally agree. There's a long and superb tradition of that. But the Brownian motion of a large internet forum can't produce it.