HN has always hosted a certain number of stories with political overlap, and the principles of how that works are pretty stable. I posted about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44718396. If you (or anyone) want to understand how we approach this, I suggest reading that comment and some of the links there, and then if you still have a question that hasn't been answered, Tom or I will be happy to take a crack at it.
Why? There is a lot of cross over from companies profiting to our tech being used to execute this. We should not put a complete blind eye to atrocities being committed indirectly by all of us.
There doesn't have to be a tech angle for a story to be on-topic for HN. Plenty of stories on the front page at any time are not at all tech-related (e.g., articles about history, psychology, philosophy, literature, etc). The guiding principle is simply that it engages intellectual curiosity.
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I'm happy to give the benefit of the doubt, but please don't do this again.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html