Could HN stop participating in the witchhunt?

Re:Could HN stop participating in the witchhunt? by brianbreslin on Friday April 19, 2013 @08:06AM (#5576131)

My question is, when it is a public service announcement that can protect or prevent further harm to our community (say the MIT shooting last night), then does it make sense? I agree the witch hunt stuff is appalling though.

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Re:Could HN stop participating in the witchhunt? by ry0ohki on Friday April 19, 2013 @08:10AM (#5576149)

I would say no, Hacker News is not a source of local public service announcements.

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Re:Could HN stop participating in the witchhunt? by atirip on Friday April 19, 2013 @08:20AM (#5576185)

May I ask "public service announcement" in which country? There are presently more than 190 member States of the United Nations.

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Re:Could HN stop participating in the witchhunt? by darkarmani on Friday April 19, 2013 @08:37AM (#5576267)

Does that include Taiwan which is a country but we aren't allowed to mention it?

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Re:Could HN stop participating in the witchhunt? by pc86 on Friday April 19, 2013 @08:13AM (#5576160)

Take a look at swombat's top-level comment in this thread. There's a good take-away here: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

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Re:Could HN stop participating in the witchhunt? by mavroprovato on Friday April 19, 2013 @08:10AM (#5576150)

I believe not. People go to other places at the internet except from Hacker News. They can get the information from there.

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Re:Could HN stop participating in the witchhunt? by ankitaggarwal on Friday April 19, 2013 @08:15AM (#5576165)

I agree. Keeping the 'comments' part apart, I feel it was OK that this kind of story is shown on the frontpage. I visit google news multiple times in a day, but today HN was the first place I came to know about this incident. For the person living in that area, this can be a very useful info.

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