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Re:Murder not crisis – Why Israel's starvation of Gaza is ex... by clipsy on Monday July 28, 2025 @02:19PM (#44713671)
It's currently flagged, so perhaps you should ask yourself the same question?
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Re:Murder not crisis – Why Israel's starvation of Gaza is ex... by cwillu on Monday July 28, 2025 @04:55PM (#44715537)
It's not currently flagged, on my screen at least? And it still shows up in the regular list, although no longer the first page.
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Re:Murder not crisis – Why Israel's starvation of Gaza is ex... by mandmandam on Monday July 28, 2025 @05:19PM (#44715807)
It was flagged, but was restored. Sadly, that's still a bit effective at suppressing the story.

The flags often have the effect of pushing things off the front page, even when they're restored within an hour or so. Not always though: this story [0] from today is currently front page after having been flagged as well.

Even temporary flagging also has the effect of diluting the conversation; so that instead of talking about war crimes, their perpetrators, or how to stop them, we're talking about flagging and algorithms.

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44714221#44715661

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