The Ask HN thread on this is now flagged/not showing up. Didn’t think HN was censoring this kind of stuff.

China has a propaganda machine and plenty of people who'll participate with any site enough to see anti-Chinese anything and will downvote, flag, whatever. This is not surprising.

What would be surprising, though, is if this site didn't see through the flags and allowed the removal of completely legitimate discussion because it upsets some.

Please don't break the site guidelines like this. These comments are beyond a dime-a-dozen, more like a nickle-a-thousand, and they're basically all the product of breathless internet user fantasy. HN users need to have a little more self-control than that if we're to preserve this site for interesting conversation. I've been trying to explain this to this community for years, so if I seem a little irritated and impatient, I hope you can understand why:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

I'm trying to figure out what happened (I don't keep track of these things while I'm asleep), but having taken a quick look so far I can tell you for sure that the flags were from legit, longstanding, entirely boring HN users. (Edit: I did not mean to insult those HN users. I meant that if people saw the list of usernames, they'd find it boring because there would be nothing sinister in it.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It works in Spanish.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=hombre%20del%20tanque

Except the first photo's thumbnail is blocked. Actually quite a few thumbnails are blocked if you scroll down.