[edwardjlsh]

I think in general this site avoids political news unless it's directly related to tech. While I agree the US politics is mad right now, it doesn't "gratify one's intellectual curiosity".

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

[Paul-Craft]

Not related to tech? Excuse me? I'm assuming you're aware of how many immigrants work in the tech industry, right? Two jobs go, I was on a team of 10 where only 2 of us were actual, natural born Americans. Not every team at the company was like that, but, still, there was definitely a large percentage of non-Americans in the engineering and product org, at least.

[edwardjlsh]

What's intellectually stimulating about a professor being deported? I'm not denying it's an issue, it needs to be voiced somewhere, but is a tech forum the place?

The rules:

> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

[sitkack]

That isn't what is happening at all, our MAGA supporting members are brigading any story that puts the limited operation in a bad light.

[AnimalMuppet]

I'd like to see your concrete evidence for that claim.

The alternate hypothesis is that regular members are flagging political articles because they're tired of the huge upswing in political articles since January 20.

How are you telling the difference between the two?

[timeon]

Even stories point out flaws of no-lidar approach with particular brand of cars are being flagged. Is that no tech related?

[edwardjlsh]

Any examples? I'd agree that is bad, yes - except if it's excessively shared and Dang is linking to the main conversation.

[curiousgal]

An H1B Worker getting deported seems preeeetty relevant to tech for me. Unless we think Tech workers themselves are somehow superior to medicine professors and this could never ever happen to them.

[fzeroracer]

I think it's an especially important thing for tech, because Silicon Valley and tech companies in general employ a lot of talent that would be affected by these efforts, whether it's H-1B or naturalized citizens.

Tech workers suddenly not wanting to work in the US or entrepreneurs avoiding conferences and such in the US as a result of an increasingly hostile environment is a great way to crater tech companies as a whole.

[edwardjlsh]

I agree, and an article on tech brain drain to Europe would be interesting! But the worst thing for HN is that it becomes another Reddit, full of posts about US politics and comments about political views with no substance.

The site rules explicitly say news articles are not things we should post.

I was an immigrant in the US (J-2) and agree this is an issue, just not one for HN.