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Every story is an opportunity to snark. You should ban the account that made the comment not suppress the controversial information. The information that FinFisher supports/profits/enables oppressive governments should not be hidden just because you don't like the comments.

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No "information is being hidden". There's a whole internet's worth of venues on which to discuss stories like this. They aren't worth the cost to the site, and so they get flagged off the site.

It's also true that all stories are an opportunity for snark. But it's not true that all kinds of snark are equally toxic. The kinds of snark that fill up threads like this are particularly bad.

The idea of hiding content due to unwanted rabble rousing, at the loss of the content and discussion regarding dual use tech, strikes me as the preferd solution of someone who stands to lose business and is attempting to protect themselves. Choose what ever label you want, by any name it is still censorship, and cronyism. Moxie was right about you.

What did Moxie say about me?

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