I suspect that users are flagging stories about it. I suspect that the reason users flag it is the quality and temperature of the comments stories about it tend to elicit.
Of course I could be wrong.
Good luck.
Good luck.
The only I could find any of the threads was by doing a google search for "google manifesto" & "hacker news".
The debate in a few of the threads were quite diplomatic. However, the social media universe reacted as expected. Liberals condemned the author for the typical "racist, bigot, homophobe" diatribe while the conservatives argument was, "Guy speaks out about not being able to speak out, and then gets carpet bombed by SJW's back into silence."
It really sucks this is where the country is. When EVERY topic is off limits and you cannot hold a rational discourse over something, it should be clear evidence the decline of Western Civilization is at hand.
I suspect that some people flagged because they don't find rhetorical debates intellectually interesting. Speaking of the decline of civilization, neither did Socrates now that I think about it.