There's no "orthodoxy". The community has various opinions—it's as simple as that. Certainly the majority view on HN is not pro-Apple on this particular topic...have you missed the all of the dozen or more major threads?

As for claims that the mods are censoring you...if only knew how little we care what your views are. We stopped having the energy for that a looong time ago.

If your comments are getting downvoted or flagged, you should try posting more substantive comments and make sure that you're following the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. That will take care of 95% of the problem, and if you experience some of the leftover 5%, we can look into it.

Keep posting your ideas anyway. It's not like we get to turn in our karma for a free eraser or anything. Speak your mind, the orthodoxy usually comes around eventually anyway.

This whole thread was censored by the mods. They're very troubled and sad individuals.

The downvotes are going to the people phrasing things using weird conspiratorial language. You can get much more support by simply saying “I think Apple is doing this because of government pressure behind the scenes”.

It's odd that so many are brainwashed to the point that if anyone who points out obvious collusion and conspiracy gets shouted down by the mob.

Your comment got flagged because it flagrantly broke the site guidelines. Would you please review them and stick to the rules when posting here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html