someone flagged and killed that one so not technically a dupe, it deserves to be on FP
moralbankruptcy•1mo ago
The grifters at yc are in bed with trump anyways so it's no surprise.
pseudo0•1mo ago
This is a petty political slapfight, basically the definition of an off-topic submission. If you want to hear about it, turn on CNN.
> 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.
wk_end•1mo ago
You could maybe make that claim about the original broadcast, but an article in The Verge about internet censorship - and the internet routing around censorship! - seems highly relevant to tech.
pseudo0•1mo ago
What exactly is novel about this case of copyright infringement if you put aside the political angle? Thousands of new torrents get uploaded every day, this is established technology that has existed for decades.
throwaway290•1mo ago
For this to be actually tech related it needs to have more interesting technical details. Otherwise it's like any other pirated movie and limitations of free speech story (it is always "censorship" or "good thing" depending on what speech particular person dislikes because of their political party)
3 hours ago I was against flagging these posts but after discussions in this thread I can see that it brings out the most insanity/flamebait/unconstructive/petty HN people and I fully support flagging these posts. No thoughtful conversation will happen
msla•1mo ago
Please keep your petty bickering off HN. Complaining about topic-ness is off-topic.
This is fascism. Stick your heads in the sand all you want, whine about how "overused" that phrase is all you want, but fascism is exactly what we are facing in the United States.
ChrisArchitect•1mo ago
smallerize•1mo ago
throwaway290•1mo ago
moralbankruptcy•1mo ago
pseudo0•1mo ago
> 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.
wk_end•1mo ago
pseudo0•1mo ago
throwaway290•1mo ago
3 hours ago I was against flagging these posts but after discussions in this thread I can see that it brings out the most insanity/flamebait/unconstructive/petty HN people and I fully support flagging these posts. No thoughtful conversation will happen
msla•1mo ago
Besides, this is very on-topic. Precedent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6912967 (331 points)