How do you define “political” and what about the story of an AI posting CSAM do you think qualifies?

The part where you brought up politics is when I noticed it was political.

But I generally consider something political if it involves politicians, or anyone being upset about anything someone else is doing, or any topic that they could mention on normal news. I prefer hn to be full of positive things that normal people don't understand or care about.

There's almost no such thing as a non-political thing. Maybe the sky colour, except that other cultures (especially in the past) have different green/blue boundaries and some may say it's green. Maybe the natural numbers (but whether they start from 0 or 1 is political) or the primes (but whether 1 is prime is political).

how insightful

What's political here? The mere fact of the involvement of Dear Leader?

(As a long-term Musk-sceptic, I can confirm that Musk-critical content tended to get insta-flagged even years before he was explicitly involved in politics.)

The comment I replied to brought up politics.