Due to post about feds nocking on their door and asking about Hexbear, which was posted outside of fake news and could be seen as serious.
34 points
They know that open censorship will make people curious. They also know that most people don’t want to bother with mild inconveniences. So they censor via inconvenience so they can pretend they aren’t “technically” censoring something while also knowing that a huge chunk of the potential audience just won’t bother.
