Recently, I made a comment in the thread 'Our minds can be hijacked': tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia' ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15421704 ).

Shortly after, my comment was flagged! I thought my comment to be very polite, so I was quite surprised by this. Could anyone tell me what the flagging criteria are in general, or more specifically: why my comment was flagged? This was my comment:

"The article makes a few ill considered assumptions:

That USA is a democracy (and that it thus makes sense to start influencing the election process). It isn't. Not in the sense that the opinions of the people influence the policies that are caried out. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/princeton-experts- say-us-no-longer-democracy

The other assumption is that Russia somehow interfered with the American election. There's no solid evidence such a thing has happened. https://consortiumnews.com/2017/09/29/russia-gates-shaky-foundation/

Third, he sort of assumes that our minds haven't already been "hijacked", by other means than addictive social media and apps. We'll, how can we explain, that those that are really good at affecting our countrys political decisions (the Saudi and the Israeli lobby) gets no scolding for this, while our chosen nemesis (Russia) gets lot's of scolding for something there's no evidence they've done? Couldn't this oddity be explained by old school "brain washing": propaganda. ?. http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/americas-jews-are-driving-americas-wars/ri20965 "