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Re:Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Gove... by zorpner on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @10:47PM (#9615807)
It was pretty inventive to use English-language as a reason to kill the post (it's not actually part of the guidelines, of course, it's just that almost no non-English posts get upvoted to the front page).

Clearly, it would have been straightforward to replace the link with an automated translation and allow the discussion to continue.

Re:Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Gove... by perfTerm on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @10:54PM (#9615829)
The thing is automatated translations are often awful to read. Hackernews is probably better off waiting for a native speaker to write up something about it because the article will maintain the interest of greater numbers of people
Re:Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Gove... by dang on Thursday May 28, 2015 @02:12AM (#9616319)
It's not inventive. It has been a rule here since the beginning. I know that because pg told me.

The guidelines don't pretend to be exhaustive.