Given the guideline is "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." one could certainly make the case it's not a topic that's fit.
"Large company does horrible things, occasionally an investigation happens" is not satisfying curiosity on an intellectual level. What, specifically, are we learning?
Yes, we can debate if it's relevant to the audience anyways, or if it's healthy for HN to have that guideline, but those are different criteria & topics.
"Large company does horrible things, occasionally an investigation happens" is not satisfying curiosity on an intellectual level. What, specifically, are we learning?
By your metric most of the topics concerning Google or Microsoft in the past months should not have staid on the front page, let alone most of the American politics topics. And yet, here we are: anything critical of any of Musk's companies gets flagged, American politics stay.
@dang: how does this flagging thingy work? How many user flags are necessary until a topic appears as [flagged]? Thank you in advance for an explanation.
That some countries are willing to hold tech companies accountable (or claim their intent to hold tech companies accountable) for breaking the laws. In turn, this could lead to court cases deciding if companies can hide behind "It wasn't us, our AI did it!" or if they have to take responsibility for the thing they made.
