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Did Hacker News Censor the Nancy Pelosi Story?

11 points| lando2319 | 7 years ago | reply

I just saw a story that was at number 5 or so, it was a tweet showing Nancy pelosi's husband recently bought call options for Amazon and Facebook.

I checked out the tweet, and then as soon as I was back on Hacker News it was gone, looks like it was flagged. Was it flagged for political purposes? I've seen countless stories on Hacker News with questionable claims, which are debated in the Hacker News thread, why is this any different?

Was it squashed for political reasons?

2 comments

[+] minimaxir|7 years ago|reply

It was flagkilled: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18543614

It definitely falls more on the political side than the tech side.

[+] ithilglin909|7 years ago|reply

Really? I don't know that the story is especially important, but it seems like plenty of other tech-related stories which are equally or more political or business focused, don't get 'flagkilled'.

Frankly, I feel like people here are often a little too quick to flag anything that they simple don't like, and it's annoying and kind of cheap.