Ask HN: Is discussion of wikileaks not allowed?
I think there are a lot of HN users who are flagging political&#x2F;US election-related topics in general, especially those that don&#x27;t have a strong tech angle.<p>Just for clarification, as I understand it, &quot;flagged&quot; is a result of users marking it flagged. I&#x27;m not sure how a submission gets marked dead (for example, if it&#x27;s moderator-only or can be marked dead if there are enough flags)<p>There&#x27;s been a lot of discussion on other similarly politically-charged threads as well. For example:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12738677" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12738677</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12792215" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12792215</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12839742" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12839742</a><p>Those are just the first couple occurrences I found. I don&#x27;t intend them to be representative of any particular bias.