Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things, but I suspect the baity title played a role, plus the celebrity aspect, plus the political aspect. The story itself seems on topic, so I'm going to turn off the flags and change the title.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25360889.

I have 500 karma and I don't see a UI element to try to vouch for it.

You can't vouch for stories. You'd have to contact the mods by email.

You can vouch for stories. It works the same way as for comments: click on the timestamp to go to its page, then click 'vouch' at the top (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cvouch).

Vouch links only show up when a post is [dead], though. In this case there were enough flags to show [flag] but not enough to kill it.

I have 1556 and can't either. Contacted them by email. They did unflag it :)

>Is HN turning into a liberal censorship site? If this was always the case, my apologies. I thought HN valued curiosity and truth...

Years ago, yes. Not so anymore. Last year they flagged/removed all submissions of a NYT op-ed (written by an Indian guy) that blamed rich white liberals for the SFBA housing crisis. Tells you all you need to know about the HN echo chamber

> Tells you all you need to know about the HN echo chamber

Actually it doesn't. Readers would need a link to what you're talking about so they could see for themselves what happened and make up their own minds about it, including whether it's relevant here. Sinister complaints like this never come with links because that would reveal the other side of the story, which is rarely anything like how the sinister complainer is framing it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Edit: while I have you: why is your account named after a war criminal (https://www.google.com/search?q=dirlewanger)? Someone complained to me about this a few weeks ago, and it does seem like a trollish username, which is not allowed here: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...