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There are also a ton of ongoing news stories and stories in that past which were completely censored off HN. I cannot talk about them or link them here, but please know that they exist.

>>theHID+(OP)
What if you create an article listing all of them, submit it to HN and post a link here in the comment? I routinely check dead links to see why a few people found it so controversial to censor it. I'd say 80% are true positives - spam, SEO junk, or some utter nonsense. The remaining 20% is content that is controversial to some people for some reasons. I learned quite a lot from it. There are days when this censored content is more interesting than top submissions.

I also happened to submit one such article somehow. I found an article on BBC saying things that are controversial today. It was flagged very quickly. It was interesting to me because BBC is a relatively reputable source and they don't publish junk.

>>theHID+(OP)
Why not? I'd like to see them. I also think that if you're going to make grand claims like that, you should include links so that readers can make up their own minds.

>>dang+Pb
Just in recent memory:

Anything relating to the scam MMO known as Dreamworld that Y combinator funded, and how its funding was possibly due to nepotism.

Anything relating to the admin of KiwiFarm's rebuttal [1] of Byuu's attacks on his forum or how her suicide was proven fake.

[1] https://kiwifarms.net/threads/my-response-regarding-byuu-nea...

There are others but either I can't remember them right now or I don't have adequate sources to them.

>>theHID+Ry
You're off on the first one. There was a lot of discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27319457 - May 2021 (238 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26898266 - April 2021 (195 comments)

Not only did we not censor that, I recall holding back on moderating it. We moderate HN less, not more, when YC or a YC-funded startup is involved (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).

You're right about the second case - we moderated that as not on-topic for HN.