This has happened before, and usually has a non-pitchforky reasoning (e.g. PG pulled it temporarily because of network/server issue). I'm sure it will be back soon, and we will have a rather reasonable answer as to why. There are way to many google employees, that frequent and enjoy HN, for it to be banned for some arbitrary reason
And of course, the network has specific functions for censorship as required by child protection laws. "Just a network error" really doesn't guarantee that the network wasn't doing something nefarious itself.
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This has happened before, and usually has a non-pitchforky reasoning (e.g. PG pulled it temporarily because of network/server issue). I'm sure it will be back soon, and we will have a rather reasonable answer as to why. There are way to many google employees, that frequent and enjoy HN, for it to be banned for some arbitrary reason
And of course, the network has specific functions for censorship as required by child protection laws. "Just a network error" really doesn't guarantee that the network wasn't doing something nefarious itself.