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Interesting how this story has been kicked out from front page.

It's currently on the front page in the RSS feed: http://hnrankings.info/12689700/

But it seems like you're right, they've killed it on the actual site.

"They" most likely being actual users flagging the submission, as happens often with political stories.

The only ranking intervention on this specific post has been user flags.