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Please don't use HN for political battle and please don't use uppercase for emphasis. These are two of the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

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Also, I think that this article was inherently political. To ask me not to mention politics in my comment of it is not in good faith. I can't see how this isn't more stifling to intellectual curiosity.

Everything is inherently political. Mentioning and battling are different.

I wrote about our approach to moderating politicized topics recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20013092. If after reading that you still find something unclear, I'd be happy to answer additional questions.

Thank you for writing about this. I am happy to see you engaging with the community on this.

I would edit my comment however the site doesn't have such advanced functionality.

Comments can be edited until the edit window runs out (2 hours). It's necessary for discussions to congeal after a while, because it's confusing to readers and unfair to repliers when an earlier comment removes what a later comment replied to. Allowing edits for a while, and then not, is the tradeoff here.

If users want a comment edit after the window has expired, they can always email us at hn@ycombinator.com.

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