You make it sound like he unfairly pissed off the political correctness police. He's actually shadowbanned because he posted wanton, meaningless, racial-slur-filled rants that contributed nothing to the discussion, despite warnings.

He's schizophrenic. Sometimes he has something useful to add, because he's a talented hacker who's one of the few people in the world to have written an entire OS stack from scratch. Sometimes his disease writes the comments.

I have no sympathy for racists, and I think it's a difficult tradeoff to make here between making HN an inclusive and welcoming place for people who don't happen to know anything about the human behind TerryADavis, and not discriminating on the basis of mental illness, but I think your comment goes too far into frank ableism.

It's nothing to do with ableism; it's everything to do with the garbage frequently spewed by certain accounts. Not just offtopic offensive racist stuff, but also long wholly ungrammatical screeds.