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I'm not sure exactly what chain of ideas leads to a conjecture like that, but I can tell you what actually happened. First, a bunch of users flagged the submission. Second, a moderator penalized the submission as not intellectually interesting.

Since the moderator was me I can tell you with high confidence that the moderator's decision was based on superficial pattern matching and did not involve any evaluation of corporate comfortableness. Also the idea of doing that nauseates the moderator at least as much as it does you.

This is such a weird comment. Whatever makes you think Cloudflare would want this post to disappear?

Indeed. There were like half a dozen people from the company all commenting on this post including their CTO. And then poof, gone.

We certainly didn't want the post to disappear. It was flagged by HN (either the mods or people with enough karma to flag), we would happily have it be restored if it were under our power.

I've read through every comment on this page and there's nothing here I wouldn't stand behind, even if much of seems to be misunderstood as in this thread.