It's not immediately clear to me why a news piece on a Salvadoran prison is relevant on HN, I guess that's why the flagging.

why do you think it's because of trump supporters, I'm curious if you have evidence of trump affiliated suppression on HN (notwithstanding the actual segment which could certainly be said to be trump suppressed) - maybe people just don't want politics on here. in any case there's one: Cecot – 60 Minutes (archive.org), on the front page anyway.

The first one is still on the front page.

I doubt it's Trump supporters. One flagger who said why was he just flags anything that is politics and not 'hacking'. The official guide is

>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

The longest discussion of a dozen or so was

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46361024 (1543 points 530 comments)

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I think you're skipping part of the reason people are annoyed at her: she had consistently claimed that she's trying to advance the case of free speech (her publication was even called "the free press"). So there's a great deal of hypocrisy in her imposing top-down pro-regime censorship on a major news organization.

Calling Bari Weiss "Center-Right" has got to be one of the more dishonest characterizations I've read. Or, you're going to need to claim that the Overton window has gone off the far-right deep-end such that the mere presence of a confounding social factor is enough to pull people from being "extreme" to being "Centrist."

I'd love to know what policy/opinion you think is "Moderate" from Bari Weiss, and which opinion piece of hers demonstrates it when compared to the sheer volume of Deep Conservatism she espouses in all of the rest of her work.

> It's worth noting, I guess, that she's also a lesbian...

This bit is solidly poisoning the well, because it gives you the ability to claim that any legitimate criticism about Bari Weiss Kowtowing to the current administration is because she's a lesbian, and not because she's legitimately censoring free speech like everyone claimed the news was doing before she started actually doing it.

> I only say that because I've noticed that it's most often people who have the "right" social characteristics that get the most aggressive responses. The people criticizing her wouldn't expect a white male to do anything else[...]”

I don’t think I’ve ever heard this idea communicated in this kind of framing. I think it makes your point quite striking.

> but if you look at what happened, like her co-workers openly insulting her in the company chat, it doesn't look good

I'm not sure "my coworkers don't respect me" is the same thing as "I got fired".

The Free Press is the publication she created that you refer to as "center right". I would not characterize it as center anything, it was created with an agenda to push far right narratives, including the elimination of Palestine. The publication primarily focuses on social issues and anti-woke narratives. In particular, it regularly publishes either outright anti-trans people content, or engages in dishonest concern trolling

Which is the connection I think is interesting to be discussed in the tech circles, we all know that Larry Ellison is dangerous from how heavy handed Oracle always has been with lawsuits.

Now that he is part of the inner circles of the US government, and through his son trying to reach into traditional media it significantly increases the damage potential he can do.

Given the quote from him that mass surveillance would "keep citizens in their best behaviour" it's actually frightening he managed to create proxy censorship through CBS, he's not even that far disconnected, it's simply: Larry Ellison -> David Ellison -> Paramount -> Beri Weiss -> CBS.

Appreciate it. Clearly (from other responses) I didnt even understand what I didn't understand and therefore phrased my question badly. This was the context I was missing.

But also trying desperately to not become another divisive hotbed of online flame war.

Which is why people flag anything negative about Trump?

What's the association between censorship and an editor of a publication making an editorial decision about an item? Those appear to be different subjects. Or is it censorship of B when an editor decides to cover A today instead?

If I buy a car with a Make Love Not War bumper sticker and cover it with a Peace Through Strength bumper sticker, I have not committed censorship, but if I don't buy the car first, I have.