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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.

>>asmor+(OP)
That rule is ... kind of nonsense anyways.

One can't be intellectually curious and not think about politics. Politics is applied intellectual curiosity.

>>saubei+qb
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.

>>asmor+(OP)
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.

>>asmor+cl
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.

>>ipaddr+3v
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.

>>asmor+(OP)
This site has always been fairly interested in mass surveillance stuff (which is, naturally, inherently political).

>>asmor+(OP)
HN is 90% AI and politics these days, or so it seems.

>>asmor+(OP)
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.