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user-inactivated · 3399 days ago · link · · parent · post: Reddit was amazing, but the revolution is over.
HN removes posts they deem off-topic, including most political posts. They let things that are going to be discussed regardless slide usually, so right after they happened the first Snowden releases, Aaron Swartz's suicide and Donglegate got a pass, but for the most part anything political is going to get removed. That the politics of technology and the techie community is not deemed on-topic on Hacker News, but the business of technology is, makes me more uncomfortable using the word "hacker" than outsiders thinking all hackers were criminals ever did, but I don't think they're inconsistent about it.