Once you have enough karma you can flag stories.

You can be shadow banned from flagging and vouching at which point you can still click it but nothing will happen. Not sure if it counts for stories.

This was my first thought too."Trump bad" is fine on HN. I've seen it multiple times. The zig guy wrote anti ICE propaganda in the zig docs and everyone here lapped it up and upvoted it. Any pro ICE discussion on HN was literally flagged and removed.

Sounds perfectly fine to me. Pro ICE is equated with supporting arbitrary execution of innocent people, who would support that in good conscience?

> Sounds perfectly fine to me. Pro ICE is equated with supporting arbitrary execution of innocent people

That is a false equivalence, ignoring the countless criminals that have been removed from our neighborhoods.

One of THOUSANDS of examples below. You want this guy as your neighbor, really?

Kindness to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

"Eduardo Temoxtle-Calihua, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, convicted for cruelty toward a child and DUI in Lincoln County, Idaho."

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/03/16/ice-continued-arrest-mur...

The downvotes prove that the hacker news hive mind doesn't care about facts.