Correction for the title, Trump actually called Zuckerberg and not the other way around:
> Later that day, Trump phoned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. During the call, Zuckerberg "expressed concerns about the tone and the rhetoric," according to a source familiar with the call.
If you do this kind of ugly thing on HN we will ban you.
Would you please review the site guidelines and stop using HN for political and/or ideological battle? It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.
This is standard HN moderation. What exactly have you seen?
We don't delete things outright on HN unless the author asks us to (there have been perhaps half a dozen exceptions to that in the 13 years and 23M posts of the site, usually for legal reasons). The most we would do is 'kill' a post, which means anyone with 'showdead' set to 'yes' in their profile can still read it. The GP post was actually in that state because of user flags, but I unkilled it in order to reply. When I do that, I usually leave the comment unkilled as a courtesy to users who don't have 'showdead', so they can see what I was replying to.
"It's just facts" is the defense most beloved of trolls, but it's a fallacy. I recently wrote about this in a comment about something else (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23284949). Here's the relevant bit:
Ditto for the oldie-but-goodie, "It's a fact. What problem can you possibly have with facts?" - as if a fact were a fish that catches itself and serves itself for dinner. There are infinitely many facts and they don't select themselves, as I often tell HN users who make this argument: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... Sure it's a fact—and language has multiple levels of meaning. It's common to attack on one level and then switch to another level to defend. It's never just a fact. What the fact is being used for, and what other facts are left out, are just as relevant.
The uncomfortable fact is Zurkerburg appears to be trying to make allies of people that normal Jewish people find really really queasy. And it not trolling to bring that up.
Especially as a response to an article discussing both Zurkerberg and that person.
so out of a billion true things in the world, you just randomly chose this one? What does it show, other than one person might have done the wrong thing?
> Later that day, Trump phoned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. During the call, Zuckerberg "expressed concerns about the tone and the rhetoric," according to a source familiar with the call.