[klyrs]

If folks were having curious conversation, and not just kneejerk partisan drivel, the story would stay up. When a large proportion of comments are flagged and downvoted, the story tanks, and gets rightfully flagged as flamebait.

For example, this article is about corporate censorship, one might like to discuss that here. Instead, most comments appear to be about the case itself. The internet has plenty of room for armchair juries to bicker over how they'd rule on the case without seeing all of the evidence. HN isn't losing much here.