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https://archive.is/2025.05.04-225615/https://www.404media.co...

Why are these being instantly marked as dead?






Seems to be a censorship campaign targeting 404 Media. Been going on for at least weeks.

Submissions from some domains aren’t prevented but automatically get deaded. It’s not a campaign.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43891088 in which a user reports that moderator dang said why that happens for this ___domain.


The fact that archive link works should make this eligible for unflagging. From tomhow (mod)

> If it's a good article (contains significant new information and can be a topic of curious conversation) and a paywall workaround works for that article, we'll happily allow it.


Anything with a potentially negative impact on Musk, Trump or DOGE seems to get flagged immediately. Coordinated or not it extremely frustrating people flag rather than honestly engage.



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