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Wow. I left my parent comment 2 minutes ago and this thread has already been removed from the front page. Story has 46 points and is 29 minutes old at the tim

Wow. I left my parent comment 2 minutes ago and this thread has already been removed from the front page. Story has 46 points and is 29 minutes old at the time I'm writing this comment. Are we not allowed to discuss the actions of one of the largest tech companies?

wbronitsky 2y ago
The comments are just a flame war about Israel. Maybe that's why so many people are flagging it.
- paxys 2y ago
  There are ~0 comments in any of the linked threads that are pro or anti war/Israel/Palestine. The discussion is about this specific situation at Google, and is flagged by people who want to censor it.
  - wbronitsky 2y ago
    That's just not the case here. Most of the comments are taking a stance on Israel/Palestine and arguing from there. There are a ton of comments likening Israel to the Nazis. That's pretty anti-Israel, no matter what side you're on. I mean, even look at the sibling post to yours. Its anti-Israel conspiracy theories.
- CommanderData 2y ago
  This post most likely was identified and went out to Israeli disinformation groups to be spam flagged. Or HN and it's mods are bias because other political piece's are posted here often.
JohnMakin 2y ago
Pretty disappointing to see this kind of censorship on this site - but lotsa googlers hang out here
- wunderland 2y ago
  I know lots of googlers-- many hadn't heard about this as well. I also think many googlers are opposed to Google's military contracts with Israel, but likely don't know this is happening.
- JohnMakin 2y ago
  what’s very funny is i made this comment well after the thread was flagged and removed from the front page, it garnered a bunch of upvotes, but then hours after it suddenly gets a spike of downvotes. I see this trend a lot on this site whenever saying anything even slightly derogatory about google. Might be a fun side project to work on to quantify this.
riversflow 2y ago
What is there to talk about? Seriously. This is just status quo behavior for businesses, and why do we care about some tiny minority of Googlers protesting and being fired? The only thing I can think of to say about this is how disconnected people are if they think this is so problematic. How is work supposed to be done if everyone complains, protests and disrupts work? The top comment on the thread right now says as much too.

wbronitsky 2y ago

The comments are just a flame war about Israel. Maybe that's why so many people are flagging it.

paxys 2y ago
There are ~0 comments in any of the linked threads that are pro or anti war/Israel/Palestine. The discussion is about this specific situation at Google, and is flagged by people who want to censor it.
- wbronitsky 2y ago
  That's just not the case here. Most of the comments are taking a stance on Israel/Palestine and arguing from there. There are a ton of comments likening Israel to the Nazis. That's pretty anti-Israel, no matter what side you're on. I mean, even look at the sibling post to yours. Its anti-Israel conspiracy theories.
CommanderData 2y ago
This post most likely was identified and went out to Israeli disinformation groups to be spam flagged. Or HN and it's mods are bias because other political piece's are posted here often.

JohnMakin 2y ago

Pretty disappointing to see this kind of censorship on this site - but lotsa googlers hang out here

wunderland 2y ago
I know lots of googlers-- many hadn't heard about this as well. I also think many googlers are opposed to Google's military contracts with Israel, but likely don't know this is happening.
JohnMakin 2y ago
what’s very funny is i made this comment well after the thread was flagged and removed from the front page, it garnered a bunch of upvotes, but then hours after it suddenly gets a spike of downvotes. I see this trend a lot on this site whenever saying anything even slightly derogatory about google. Might be a fun side project to work on to quantify this.

riversflow 2y ago

What is there to talk about? Seriously. This is just status quo behavior for businesses, and why do we care about some tiny minority of Googlers protesting and being fired? The only thing I can think of to say about this is how disconnected people are if they think this is so problematic. How is work supposed to be done if everyone complains, protests and disrupts work? The top comment on the thread right now says as much too.