Ask HN: Is discussion of wikileaks not allowed?

I submitted a post about Eric Schmidt working directly with the Clinton campaign and, in an email, stating, "Key is the development of a single record for a voter that aggregates all that is known about them."

The post was flagged and removed. Not sure why other than wikileaks discussion not being allowed....

The frontpage is either:

1. Being heavily censored by admins

2. Being heavily flagged by butthurt Hillary supporters

I think there are a lot of HN users who are flagging political/US election-related topics in general, especially those that don't have a strong tech angle.

Just for clarification, as I understand it, "flagged" is a result of users marking it flagged. I'm not sure how a submission gets marked dead (for example, if it's moderator-only or can be marked dead if there are enough flags)

There's been a lot of discussion on other similarly politically-charged threads as well. For example:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12738677

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12792215

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12839742

Those are just the first couple occurrences I found. I don't intend them to be representative of any particular bias.

Yeah, sorry about that. Conspiracy headquarters was busy with the daily mass media realignment groupthink and I couldn't get you the usual 1055 ("useful appearance of opposition") exemption.

You must be a new HN user. Few weeks ago HN front page was full of political/election topics. They weren't flagged, and even some of them were heavily upvoted. But these submissions were mostly anti-Trump.

Now, when most submissions are anti-Clinton, they are being flagged and removed. Those which despite that are able to get many upvotes, are being silently hidden from front page. Moderators also add "a moderation downweight" to these submissions (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12715332).

WikiLeaks submissions are particularly targeted, as these are pure facts, which cannot be easily dismissed in comment threads.