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Looks like even this thread has been silenced.

I flagged it, as I'm sure others did: it's meta-drama, and it's based on a false claim about censorship on HN. The HN moderators have done the exact opposite of censoring this story.

I've reached out to HN via email, will be interested in their response.

For posterity's sake, here is their response:

It was flagged by users, and then vouched for. As of this morning that submission was not dead, but isn’t the active discussion, which is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12733024. Moderators haven’t penalized these posts at all.

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