I am up for a debate, and I am happy to be shown other perspectives. Yet flagging my comment seems to be the easiest way to scrub something you don't like, while avoiding constructive debate. It seems to me that you are labeling my writing as starting an 'ideological flamewar', when I would argue I back up my arguments with leading research/references.
When I googled ‘flamewar’, wikipedia defines it as:
"a flame war is a series of flame posts or messages in a thread that are considered derogatory in nature or are completely off-topic"
I am making connections that I think are worthwhile. They might seem overly critical and negative to those who are not familiar with the arguments. Do you want to limit connections you don’t make yourself, and discard them as ‘off-topic’ because you aren’t familiar with the research?
That sounds a bit like cherry-picking to me.
I don’t understand how constructive critique like this can be flagged, and my comment muted/hidden. Are we not all humans typing away at our keyboards here? Is your perspective really the ‘right’ or only useful perspective?
The only reason I can think of for you and others to flag my comment is if my comments are getting in the way of you or others in Silicon Valley from charging your rents? Is it that you see some truth in what I share that you might not be comfortable with?
I'm sorry, but it's a classic generic ideological tangent to take a thread about SaaS into "the Global North's historic and continued plundering of the Global South". If we allow that, every thread will eventually turn into a generic ideological flamewar. That's how the internet works by default, and one must make a conscious effort to prevent that if one wants to prevent it, which we do. Comments like yours lead precisely to comments like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22153317, and worse, so please don't do that here.
If you're sincerely worried about the moderation favoring one ideology over another, you're welcome to look through the many past occasions where I've posted moderation comments about this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... We don't keep any counts, but you'll find plenty of examples of every side getting the same sort of moderation reply when commenters take a thread in this sort of direction.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html