[CurtMonash]

I'm an anti-censorship extremist, but this doesn't feel to me like censorship. After all, the site is being discussed here on HN, and I'm sure it could also be found through many other search engines, portals, or whatever.

Even if we get to the point that certain pages are only likely to be found via 10-20 year old technologies, so what? Those technologies were invented for text articles and still work well for them, and text articles are what matter most. Similar things are also true about the runners-up in "matter most", which in some order are straightforward image, sound and video files.

[mhermher]

Then you're probably not an anti-censorship extremist. If (big if) what the post is alleging is true, then it is pretty egregious.

[rodgerd]

So not getting #1 is search results is censorship?

The word is becoming meaningless dribble in the hands of axe-grinding cretins who believe that everyone must be forced to read their material.