It's nothing new or special from previous videos, just some guy claiming they yank his balls every day.
Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN?
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Re: Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN?
#22Wait, there are mods?
There are two: dang and tomhow.
Re: Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN?
#23Hacker News appears to reflect a predominantly Western-centric audience and moderation framework, which may influence content visibility. Consequently, stories that are critical of Western political actors or policies may face greater scrutiny or flagging. In contrast, content that aligns with prevailing Western geopolitical narratives, such as criticism of the Chinese government illustrated by the recent front-page coverage of Jimmy Lai, tends to receive broader acceptance and prominence.
Re: Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN?
#24We don’t come to HN for politics or religion. It just causes polarization. It’s part of what makes HN great.
That's fine IF tech stays out of politics, but that's not the case anymore. US tech bros are buying themselves policy with this administration. If tech is influencing politics and consequently, all of us, why should there be an asymmetry when the tech plebs want to talk politics?
No its just unqualified fine. Asserting everything is political "because tech bros" is word salad.
I downvote politics because its repetitive, uninteresting in itself, and uninteresting in the comments.
Go somewhere else to obsess about whatever stupid thing Trump did today.
Re: Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN?
#25I think the usual thing that any users can flag stories and people try to keep politics out of HN unless it's something unusual.
This probably is - 474 comments currently on this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46361024
There are presently eleven 60 minutes censored stories up on HN.
It's been a busy day for Trump related news what with that and some Epstein stuff.
Re: Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN?
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the politics of the USA becoming so entangled with the tech scene to be quite interesting, it's definitely not a phenomenon I expected to see given the ethos of the industry when I started my career in the early 2000s. Seeing the support from the previous SV "rebels" for the demolition of US's institutions is interesting.
You’ve put your finger right on the issue. A lot of people in tech today think politics is something “other” to tech. It’s the same kind of “we just make the thing, how it’s used, by whom, for what, and why is someone else’s problem” that pervades the likes of Meta Platforms Inc. With today’s technology industry, thinking like that is naive at best. The worst of the worst tech bros and their earlier investors (like M…
> Which isn’t to say you’re somehow wrong for wanting a safe space away from political discourse. It’s important not to forget how empowering silence and ignorance are to causes that typically undermine the rights of the populace.
I feel like these two statements nearly contradict each other. Maybe the second sentence should have begun with "However,..."
Either way, I totally agree that apathy is enemy #1 and policies that enable censorship for any reason are enemy #2.
Re: Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN?
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Re: Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN?
#28Politics are off topic and we do our best to keep them off the front page.
Politics we don't like are off topic and we do our best to keep them off the front page
Re: Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN?
#29You might be interested in browsing the active page [0] of Hacker News every so often. It shows even flagged stories that have a lot of recent interaction.
Re: Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN?
#30We don’t come to HN for politics or religion. It just causes polarization. It’s part of what makes HN great.
well, I think its relevant to tech, vc, and startups.
An event like this exposes a chink in legacy media practices that could be distrupted by a new media player like youtube, or whatever.
If 60minutes had used a more modern distribution platform such as Apple TV or YouTube they could have programmatically squashed the distribution of the episode without the need to police their various global distribution partners. I mean frankly, global bespoke distribution deals are a terrible UX anyhow.
They failed to do that in this case and here is the fallout.