There's plenty of Apple criticism on this site. So much so that I find it rather rote and boring to be honest - there's usually very little new or interesting brought up in these conversations, just the same criticism up over and over again.

HN is heavily moderated to promote what it sees as "high quality discussions", and Apple flamewars tend to be pretty low quality, so they're deranked.

Any decent criticism will be removed, or downvoted as you can see with my post above.

Really excited to see the rebranding from “hacker” news to “Corporate Sycophant”

Edit: I also find your deflection “rote” and “boring”. ;)

I agree, meta conversations of Hacker News on Hacker News are rote and boring.

Edit: People not liking what you have to say is not draconian censorship.

I'd like to see links. I'll bet it's either a case of (1) the post was breaking the site guidelines; or (2) someone mistakenly concluded we censored it.

I say that because #1 is the reason we moderate HN posts and #2 happens all the time in the fervid internet imagination.