[hknapp]

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[ra7]

Also in the guidelines.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

This story is surely closer to politics than to intellectual curiosity?

[lolinder]

This story is about freedom of speech, which has been central to hacker culture for as long as there has been a hacker culture.