That's at least arguing about whether or not the tech industry has a widespread issue. This is singling out one guy (whose best-known work already had a mixed reputation among nerds). Even if it turns out Mozilla really is being run by a reactionary religious zealot, it doesn't seem to affect their technical direction nor the use of their donated funds.
A single person's donation to support a questionable proposition - I'm not sure that's a human rights discussion. In any case, neither of those are good web forum topics.
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This would fall under the heading of "political discussion".
Yet amazingly the 40,000 "OH HAI SEXISM" posts that blanketed HN for the last week don't?
That's at least arguing about whether or not the tech industry has a widespread issue. This is singling out one guy (whose best-known work already had a mixed reputation among nerds). Even if it turns out Mozilla really is being run by a reactionary religious zealot, it doesn't seem to affect their technical direction nor the use of their donated funds.
The guidelines http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html specifically call out politics as being off-topic.
No - this would fall under the heading of "human rights discussion".
A single person's donation to support a questionable proposition - I'm not sure that's a human rights discussion. In any case, neither of those are good web forum topics.