HN flags post of Irish tech personality being punished for speaking for Gaza
HN flags post of Irish tech personality being punished for speaking for Gaza
HN lore: a news submission that gets flagged is removed from the listing of posts on HN and basically hidden.
It's interesting because there are a bunch of comments basically agreeing with the statements re Palestine and against a genocide, and of course that means it gets flagged.
Bonus: casual Irish racism - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37976176
Given Irish history, and this person's Irish origin, I can understand how, in an unguarded and possibly reflexive moment, he could see this as merely support for a smaller, inferior, insurgent force against a larger, militarily superior occupying force, as this can be argued to loosely parallel Irish 20C history involving Britain.
At the same time, I'm surprised because this person organized a cosmopolitan gathering, and it seems likely that he would have adopted a more cosmopolitan and sensitive attitude.
I suppose the old adage is true, "The tree may leave the forest, but its roots are still in the soil."
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HN also has a huge transphobia issue that wasn't dealt with at all by the mods. It got so bad that the Asahi Linux project had to block the referral link from Hacker News to their website. It's probably the techbro site besides X formerly known as Twitter.
I'm not surprised. They also had a lot of users have to use their fainting couch when a popular post from a furry about remote work hit the frontpage
How do you even have a tech site that's afraid of furries and/or trans people?
Where do you think all the Palantir and Google employees post?