Think about it, if news are not good and no one votes they will drop anyway, and after one hour or so no one will vote for them.<p>Censorship by definition is the suppression of speech, public communication or other information.<p>But, if first user who has admin rights decided to mark something as &quot;dead&quot; basically he acts same as people in Stasi Germany, filtering the continent for &quot;greater good&quot;.<p>[Update] Additionally, why is sharing other people things considered ok but sharing your own things consider bad and banned?<p>[Update 2] I would gladly answer but I am getting message I am submitting too fast<p>Example:<p>For instance for the following account [grisanik] everything from that story [10790985], has marked as &quot;dead&quot;, it is distopian&#x2F;utopian story about two futures.<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hacker-news.firebaseio.com&#x2F;v0&#x2F;user&#x2F;grisanik.json?print=pretty<p>Why is that story considered as spam? On that site there is no adverts?<p>Tell me what is considered as on topic I just read the story about gang rape. How is that on topic with Hack news?<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; Comment 
&quot;You are saying HN is not ok to say I made this what do you think about it? and then I made something else what do you think about that?&quot;
But it is ok with
U1 &quot;Elon Musk ...&quot;
U2 &quot;Elon Musk ...&quot;
U3 &quot;Elon Musk ...&quot;<p>I know that Elon Musk is awesome I do not to read about him here I can go to his official site.<p>What is that you people make? That is what interest me... But again maybe I am wrong ...
Does "dead" status on HackerNews means suppression of the freedom of speech?