On: Solitary Confinement Is Cruel and All Too Common

[shawn-butler]

I don't often make these comments and trust the filtering to work but I really fail to understand why this is on HN front page.

It has no technology or startup confluences or flavor. It is not even a factual story but an "editorial" opinion piece with zero information content.

[wpietri → shawn-butler]

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." -- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[musername → shawn-butler]

The spread of this opinion has an upstart attitude to it. There might be a profit to be made in raising donations, or otherwise awareness, for the cause.

[sixothree → shawn-butler]

I think this community has a particular eye for injustice and depravity of accepted norms.