Remember when commenting on Hacker News: it's an international community. Australia doesn't protect freedom of expression in the same way the US does. Indeed,

Remember when commenting on Hacker News: it's an international community. Australia doesn't protect freedom of expression in the same way the US does. Indeed, there's a decent chunk of the world that's perfectly rational and sees our relatively laissez-faire attitude on some Bill of Rights content as dangerous to a survivable society.