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I will note that hacker news, unlike most sites, has a pretty well-defined set of criteria for what they're looking for, as defined on their guidelines page: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html . They explicitly list politics as a reason why things might not be appropriate for this forum.

Unlike, say, reddit, which has a bunch of subreddits for various topics, hacker news only has one feed. So it is naturally more restrictive about topic.

I can see how reasonable folks can see this post as sort of grey area, but at the end of the day, the users of hacker news flagged this post, the moderator -- who I've historically found to do a fantastic and neutral job of monitoring -- believes it does not meet HN guidelines, so I think this just isn't the platform to discuss this news. And that doesn't seem unreasonable, either. I'm sure there are other places to discuss it online.

>>cdrini+(OP)
I think it comes from a place of pre-emptive laziness. They don't even want to try to invite the spirit of discourse on a few controversial topics and verticals, because a few bad apples will make the moderators, well, moderate. I'm not buying it.