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Some readers have complained about this data being posted here. That's reasonable, but so is the community discussion. So we changed the URL from http://185.100.87.84/ to the least bad news article we could google. If someone has a better URL, we can change it again.

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Why bother removing the URL only to post it again in a comment?

Taking it out of the story link was the important thing. At that point HN was no longer broadcasting it.

Not to include it the comment, especially since we always include the previous url in a comment, would have invited accusations of suppression, which would only call more attention to it.

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