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A comment on Ask HN: Why is the "Google, what were you thinking?" link getting killed.

Re:Ask HN: Why is the "Google, what were you thinking?" link... by bhousel on Friday January 13, 2012 @10:31AM (#3460947)
There is no grand conspiracy involving Google apologism. Everything with a .co.ke domain is auto-killed by the HN submission process.

I just tried it myself with some other random Kenyan domain: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3460932

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the "Google, what were you thinking?" link... by jiaaro on Friday January 13, 2012 @10:44AM (#3460992)
... ok, and the obvious question: "Why are .co.ke domains auto-killed?"
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the "Google, what were you thinking?" link... by handelaar on Friday January 13, 2012 @12:40PM (#3461496)
Apparently because HN (incorrectly) regards .ke to have second-level domains. Which it doesn't.

This is a bug.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the "Google, what were you thinking?" link... by bradleyland on Friday January 13, 2012 @10:54AM (#3461035)
Given that the"New" page is jammed with submissions, it's probable that they were auto-killed for spamming.
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