> there's an automated rule here that tries to punish discussion of this topic, since Internet censorship doesn't belong on Hacker News apparently.
There's no such automated rule, and internet censorship gets discussed on Hacker News extensively.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive, low-quality, and flamebait comments? You've been doing it repeatedly, and we're trying for something else here. In fact, you've been doing it incessantly lately and if that keeps up we're going to have to ban you, regardless of how you feel about censorship.