Dang I respect your work a whole lot and appreciate all that you put in to keep HN a place i like coming back to. But the comment above was totally unwarranted

Dang I respect your work a whole lot and appreciate all that you put in to keep HN a place i like coming back to. But the comment above was totally unwarranted and uncalled for in my opinion. I flagged it (of course, just as a token symbolism). Promoting self censorship just because a topic is unpopular is not a theme that I associate HN with. Flame war aside I am happy that some sane discussion and information around the topic came to light because of the comment that started this. Not only that in the context of story and the current time I did not find it off topic at all.