The military has censored communications since time immemorial.<p>I've been a factor in a lot of discussion on Hacker News that I haven't managed to "shut down".<p>What's shutting down this "discussion" is that there isn't anything to discuss productively.<p>We could continue trying to provoke a fruitless discussion by extrapolating further and further from the story; "the US is evil", etc. That might pick a pointless fight.<p>Thankfully, I think Hacker News is largely innoculated from discussions like that.<p>The fact of the matter is that this isn't an article about how the War On Terror affects startups, and it isn't an article about censorship. If you want to have a discussion about those topics, write a blog post.<p>It will be relevant to Hacker News, and I will vote it up.