HN has not been welcoming of political discussion and for good reason. US politics over the last 3 months was noticeably absent from the front page. That being

HN has not been welcoming of political discussion and for good reason. US politics over the last 3 months was noticeably absent from the front page. That being said I do think there is a finer tech ethics issue here: If a government asks you to censor or remove content, do you do it? Looking at Google in China and Australia, answer seems to be “yes, in that government’s jurisdiction”. Examples OP cited are different in that Google and Facebook seem to have censored the content wholesale, across the world.