Ask HN: Why is the most consequential ~hacker-news~ banned from HN?

Lots of articles have been posted about 8chan, including this one that was on the front page most of yesterday and is currently over 1000 points:

Other articles too:

I'm referring of course to Cloudfare/8chan/Bitmitigater

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