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Re:U.S. prison labor programs violate fundamental human righ... by tivert on Friday May 19, 2023 @11:46AM (#36003292)
> The thread is flagged, because HN is marketing branch of YCombinator, and publishing information that's inconvenient to their business partners isn't in their best interests.

No, it's flagged because it's one of those controversial political topics that often leads to polarized slapfights and flamewars.

And that's proven by the a number of inflammatory, flamebait comments already in this thread.

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Re:U.S. prison labor programs violate fundamental human righ... by trasz4 on Friday May 19, 2023 @12:22PM (#36003693)
So slavery is "controversial" now?
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Re:U.S. prison labor programs violate fundamental human righ... by colpabar on Friday May 19, 2023 @01:55PM (#36004897)
somebody did a racism so the hall monitors have decided the rest of us shouldn't discuss the article
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Re:U.S. prison labor programs violate fundamental human righ... by tivert on Saturday May 20, 2023 @02:51AM (#36009911)
> So slavery is "controversial" now?

No, but classifying prison labor as slavery is.

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Re:U.S. prison labor programs violate fundamental human righ... by colpabar on Friday May 19, 2023 @02:19PM (#36005152)
You can claim that anyone who even hints that maybe two countries with very different demographics may in fact have differences due to those demographics is racist and that any comments along those lines are just inflammatory flamebait, but people will continue to ponder that theory because 1) it seems fucking obvious and 2) curious people (and people in general I guess) can't help but be interested in topics that they're told not to be interested in.

Now that you (and others) have flagged the thread, the people with showdead on will see that it has happened yet again, and they just might seek out a place where an actual discussion can be had.

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Re:U.S. prison labor programs violate fundamental human righ... by the_only_law on Friday May 19, 2023 @03:15PM (#36005769)
Funny I’ve seen threads like that hit the front page and never get flagged. Hell I’ve seen some pretty explicit violations of the guidelines hit the front page and stay there plenty of times. Where are all the rules lawyers in those threads?
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