Seems dangerously close to the way reddit went down by silencing anyone with controversial opinions.

Ehn, HN has always been strongly moderated.

I've gotten into plenty of flamewars with Dems, Republicans, Anti-Vaxxers, Pro-Vaxxers, AI Luddites, AI Fundamentalists, China bots, China hawks, Apple fanatics, Apple haters, far-right, far-left, pro-WFH, anti-WFH, pro-immigration, anti-immigration, and others on HN.

I just don't care about filtering my opinions and use HN as a way to kvetch and impart some information I may know about.