[toomanyrichies]

I mean, if you want to quote the guidelines [1]:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

"Most" leaves some wiggle room here, and I'd say CBS's censoring of Colbert post-acquisition is evidence of an "interesting new phenomenon". You might not find the story interesting, but that just means you're not the target audience.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[bunderbunder]

There is also an FCC angle that is relevant in that it concerns broadcast communications. And a “Streisand Effect” aspect that is perennially interesting to many hackers. And, relatedly, an angle concerning how newer media (YouTube) alters the communication landscape.