> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did. [1]
That doesn't mean you should dissuade posters. This issue is very serious.
HN's remit is not 'everything someone thinks is serious', there are zillions of very serious issues for which HN is not a great place. The problems with proposed legislation posts are covered in the moderation comments I linked. They aren't about whether the issues proposed legislation tries to address are serious or not.
It's a tech related political matter. Extremely tech related, and misguided based on assumptions about tech. You may think it is irrelevant but the average tech professional I am very sure does think it is relevant.
It's a proposed-bill post which is a poor fit for HN which, in turn, is why it's no longer on the front page. I did not say anything about it being 'irrelevant' or 'the average tech professional'. Again, this is explained in the linked moderation comments.