> Don't know why this isn't higher

Because most people on HN and the moderators support censorship. Especially on social media and the internet. So far they've been successful in taking down silly accounts like milo and some "right wingers". But their ultimate goal is to get censorship controls like iran. It doesn't serve their interest to criticize iran for doing what they want to do themselves.

You have to keep in mind hacker news is a misnomer. This site hasn't been run by tech. The mods are former unemployed media employees. They know nothing about technology. And most of the people here are left leaning anti-free speech types.

There is no hacker ethos to hacker news. It died many years ago.