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>>etc-ho+(OP)
There are many things I appreciate about YC News but being certain that this report will not be censored here is something I truly appreciate about this forum. Thanks @Dang et al.

>>paulet+W5
There's a lot of censoring here, not sure how you can be so certain. I think that the admins outsource most of the censoring to "senior" users though by giving more weight to their flagging.

>>ijhuyg+Mh
If you have a system that relies on voting, and people vote against some things appearing, that's not called censoring! That's just the system working as intended.

>>edanm+J72
So, just so we're on the same page, you are saying that users of "news.ycombinator.com" wanted to purposefully hide a story about the CEO of Y Combinator wishing the death of San Francisco politicians, as well as the actual death threats that have surfaced as a result.

You can call it censorship or not, but it's not a good look either way.

>>LexiMa+o63
> [...] you are saying that users of "news.ycombinator.com" wanted to purposefully hide a story about [...]

No, you're interpreting things here in a specific way.

It could be that users didn't think it belonged on HN because it was politics, which is often frowned upon. It could be that they thought there was a problem with the article itself.

In any case, even if it was totally the community choosing to not want to see this news (which I doubt), it wasn't a deliberate action by the people running the site, which does make a difference (otherwise that would've been the original accusation).