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How “censorship” trended on Hacker News

“Censorship” was mentioned 61,316 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Jan 2021 with 2,048 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “censorship” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about “censorship”

1. 1.Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention 1,224 points · 496 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific misinformation online 1,016 points · 926 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Tell HN: A hacker's life is in danger, your awareness may be life saving 957 points · 103 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork 954 points · 366 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the world’s democracies 942 points · 607 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns 786 points · 403 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex 755 points · 378 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models 745 points · 380 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
9. 9.An Open Letter to HN from EFF, Demand Progress, and Cory Doctorow 681 points · 101 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship 659 points · 544 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Sex censorship killed the internet we love 627 points · 493 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship 625 points · 589 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN

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