My first thought too was that this got dropped more as protecting-an-asset (Wish has a ton of SF-area investors) than stopping-a-conversation.

Out of curiosity (banned book effect) over this, I did read through the article. The tone is way more confrontational than informative! My bet is that it was the tone that got it killed.

In that same vein though, is there a list somewhere of all the articles that got pulled? It might be fun to read through more of these “banned books”.