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Not an admin, just a user, but read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

There's nothing very interesting in vilifying Thiel.

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On the contrary, the fact that we had, and continue to have numerous threads, and thousands of comments means it is very interesting to the community.

The fact that it keeps getting flagged to death shows something too.

Politics creep into every news aggregate out there. I kind of like the idea of Hacker News not being one of them.

Indeed it does. Flags are disabled here, and now we get a long and extensive back and forth of all the sorts of arguments normally shut down as bigoted tout court.

Excuses from above about it being good for the community strikes me as eerily similar to the "national security" argument: in order to defend a free community from those who seek to harm it, we don't need to uphold the principles that it was founded upon. Hm.

I'd agree with you, but they have a point in not moderating this one away, since it's critical of YC.

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