You've seriously broken the HN guidelines. Please read the rules and stick to them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

If you'd like more explanation, there is plenty at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26652363 and the links back from there.

It's a shame, I feel like it's our duty to boost these things - it's the least we can do.

Maybe the HN team could manually do "flag locks" for certain articles that are being brigaded?

Reddit has a "controversial" indicator on posts and comments that can help users identify that this is happening(heavily downvoted, but also heavily upvoted and interacted with).

If there were a way to transparently share coordinated activity I'd be supportive. But, I've never seen the evidence shared and I trust the reason is because sharing such evidence would lead the actors to change their methods. The best we can do as users is discuss the possibility it may be occurring.

This is way beyond being "controversial". First thing probably, HN team can investigate all China related posts and gather users who flagged these posts and take action accordingly.

What if some of those people are on the HN team?

You may be at step 4 of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26637365.

Eventually HN would lose (some of) its appeal. And if it would bug enough people a new forum would see a huge influx of people.

We'll see if they are going to prevent this.

If this is being flagged, it's likely because it's against the submission guidelines. It's hard to see how this gratifies intellectual curiosity, and it's a political topic without an interesting new phenomenon.

Mass incarceration in concentration camps is not a political issue, it's a human rights issue.

I don't recall ever flagging a submission, if I have it's infrequent.

That personal attack aside, political submissions don't have a blanket ban, but it's reasonable to see why this one would get flagged without blaming paid state actors.

The same thing happened on the other relevant post about an hour ago. Here was my recent comment on that one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26642757

@dang, might some intervention be in order?

you need some amount of points in order to downvote something on this site; only someone who has a stake in this community can yield his influence in order to downvote something here; this means that a lot of people here are subjects to the whims of the CPC.