Really, though, this is just about avoiding repetition. The first principle of HN is curiosity. Everything else follows from that (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). Curiosity withers under repetition (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). Generic discussions are bad because they're repetitive. There's a close relationship between genericness and repetition: generic is what you get when you take a bunch of things that have been seen and heard before, and blend them in a blender.
When a topic has been repeated enough to become generic, SNI is our only friend (see link upthread). That's basically the same as your specific incident. By the way, these specific incidents quickly become generic in their own right. An ongoing example:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23223219
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23221264
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23213213
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23172564
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23232115
(those are just the ones with significant comments that I happen to know about)
Edit - by the way, it has taken years to hammer out these principles to the point that they've become building blocks of moderation that can be linked to and expressed in clear, concrete ways. I think it's probably time to collect this material into a more orderly form.
[new message in Google search -"support.google.com"]
...with results limited to the past 24-hours. I had not even heard of the YouTube issue and was honestly surprised how much information was on wiki’s about Google censorship.
All that said, lol, didn’t have an issue with your reasoning, and when I saw how fast the post was climbing wasn’t shocked to see it fall just as fast as it happens all the time and you’d pinned your comment too.