I wouldn't say censorship is at play. There have been analyses showing that Google is a favorite topic of HN users[1], and also there have been customer service

I wouldn't say censorship is at play. There have been analyses showing that Google is a favorite topic of HN users[1], and also there have been customer service scenarios that prove that there are a lot of Google employees on here. Those are probably the forces at work in this case. [1] http://blog.datadive.net/which-topics-get-the-upvote-on-hacker-news/ http://blog.datadive.net/which-topics-get-the-upvote-on-hack...