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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
How does a discussion about ethics and symbolism not fall under intellectual curiosity?

>>kitsun+Lj1
There must have been a breakdown somewhere in our objective view of reality when doing fascist salutes at the inauguration of the largest tech-business bearing country in the world, by the wealthiest tech CEO in the world, are whittled down to "Celebrity troll moves". I don't know if HN is beyond saving, but it does feel like it tows the line when it comes to techno-fascism.

A discussion worth having, if we could.

>>f38zf5+o82
I wonder if there were any concerned engineers at IBM who tried to raise their voices over the tabulating machines being sold to Nazi Germany? If there were, I bet they heard similar things as today when they were brushed off.