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Re:Another US visa holder was denied entry over someone else... by dragonwriter on Monday September 02, 2019 @12:59PM (#20860355)
> I flagged it for the reason that the headline purports to know something tech crunch can’t possibly know:

That's a reason to suggest modifying the HN headline from the source headline to something more accurate for the factual content; flagging is for a story that is out-of-bounds for the site, not for suboptimal (including clickbait, editorializing, or outright misleading) headline on an otherwise appropriate story.

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Re:Another US visa holder was denied entry over someone else... by SpicyLemonZest on Monday September 02, 2019 @01:04PM (#20860402)
True, but I'd argue the non-clickbait version of the story is out of bounds for the site. "Some guy says CBP lied about why they denied him" doesn't exactly lead to deep discussion.
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Re:Another US visa holder was denied entry over someone else... by fzeroracer on Monday September 02, 2019 @02:56PM (#20861112)
HackerNews covers far more benign examples of someone's privacy or rights being violated. I'm not sure how this is somehow out of bounds on the site compared to discussions about YouTube deleting [x] videos and so forth.
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Re:Another US visa holder was denied entry over someone else... by dragonwriter on Monday September 02, 2019 @01:41PM (#20860655)
> True, but I'd argue the non-clickbait version of the story is out of bounds for the site.

That's fine; I wouldn't argue that it is improper to flag this as off-topic (I may or may not agree, but it's a reasonable opinion in any case, and an appropriate reason for flagging.)

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