The comment was obviously trollish. Please stop creating accounts to break HN's rules with.

"Portfolio company" has nothing to do with how we moderate HN, except that we moderate less in such cases. Explained many times over the years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

HN is not overly censoring, but it [0] is very disapproving of overly divisive and flaming content. Also, HN is not one person. And the comment you linked is not even negative at the moment.

[0] In this case, both community and moderators.

Curious to hear more about this. Is censorship "removal" or simply not getting votes? I've seen this concept generally addressed here before as "we don't censor, people just vote this way"

It was flagged by a mod.

flagging is something normal users can do.

and no longer is.

It's scary.

Imagine the US five years from now, with Team Trump in charge of the censoring.

Banning Trump from Twitter...the pendulum will indeed swing the other way. How long do we have.

The clock is ticking on open source, decentralized solutions. Nothing else is relevant.