Was this removed from the front page?
So news about Prince dying from overdose is okay but 50+ people shot to death is not okay?
So news about Prince dying from overdose is okay but 50+ people shot to death is not okay?
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. [...] If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
The exceptions, of course, would be stories that also gratify intellectual curiosity. That's sadly not the case here.
There's absolutely no way that the comments here will be productive and not derail, so people have flagged it.
It's almost impossible that anybody with an internet connection will miss this news, so it doesn't need to be here, either.
Think about that.
If comments are a problem, then lock it for comments and only allow voting.
But censoring out important news is a huge problem.
Well then I expect all breaking news to be deleted from HN, and I mean all of it.
You can't take the largest mass killing on American soil since 9/11 and simply censor it out because it is a hassle.
People aren't coming to HN for actual news stories. It's not like they won't see this story somewhere else within minutes. Considering who quickly comments here descend into madness on any story involving terrorism or guns it's for the best it was flagged. And locking the comments on HN seems pointless as they're the main reason people are here.