In all fairness, this has only been posted for an hour, and it was only at the top of HN for 20 minutes or so.

Probably because employees are asked not to post on topics that could be controversial or where they are likely to only have a very small part of the picture.

Googlers do read a lot of hackerne.ws articles and will flag cases like this internally for review where appropriate. :)

^ Cynicism at its best.