The Hacker News guidelines permit &quot;anything that gratifies one&#x27;s intellectual curiosity&quot;.<p>Now, even HN qualifies what isn&#x27;t suitable for political stories: &quot;Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, <i>unless they&#x27;re evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.</i>&quot; Rest assured, most such stories do not satisfy this criterion, or wear off their novelty all too quickly.<p>Be it the Millennials whose whining will immanentize the eschaton, the white heterosexual males and their original sin of mercantilism and colonialism, the feminists and Cultural Marxists who want to usurp Western values (whatever they are this month)... it is all grinding.<p>The chief complaint, of course, is that threads on this subject are devoid of any value pertaining to debate. They instead serve as hubs for signaling normative dispositions. The inevitable result of such vacuous posturing is attrition. Discussions grow ever more primordial, threads on the subject increase and these elements spill over to other threads. It is not uncommon now for technical threads to derail into aesthetic tangents (i.e. Coq). Everyone wants to be the greatest victim and the greatest receiver of sympathy. No one actually cares about the utility or disutility of people. They only care that everyone know how righteous they are.<p>Many of you will object on the basis of free speech. But there is no free speech on private property. Certainly, the property owner may implicitly consent to ideological dissemination on their property. They may even explicitly have easement or other contract permitting nonpossessory use that includes the right to disseminate ideology, or otherwise, speech. The property owner&#x27;s rights ultimately override yours, and so you have no right to demand anything (neither do I, obviously). As such, the owner exercises all final discretion.<p>Note that I do not expect any such moratorium to actually take place. I merely wanted to counterbalance things by expressing a dissenting view.
Ask HN: Moratorium on threads related to the culture wars and identity politics