I'm all for keeping the discourse on HackerNews tight, but lately I see dozens of posts a day about serious issues for all of us being flagged.

The one that sent me over the edge was this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42917806

A US Bill proposed that could represent jail time for anyone importing AI software/models from China OR exporting AI software/models TO China.

This seemed huge to me, and I genuinely wanted to read the discussion. But when I went back to the post, it had been flagged.

It seems to me there is a concerted effort to stop speech related to certain topics on HackerNews lately.

Has anyone else noticed this?