Why?

Because the only political position of silicon valley is profit

The official HN guide thing is

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime... unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon

This story is politics/crime but sadly not an interesting new phenomenon.

Because hckrnews is for technology, and this has absolutely nothing to do with technology

There's plenty of other non-tech news here. Besides, the user base of HN is fairly smart, so reading their discussions from non-tech topics is often interesting.

> Because hckrnews is for technology

Could you quote the part of the posting guidelines where you see that?

If I link you some other non-tech items from the front page could you explain the difference?