Care to elaborate?

I have showdead set to yes, and while so some articles get a gray color and an occasional [flagged] tag, everything is still searchable[0]. The only form of censorship is the ordering in the news list, but I could pick any other list[1] if I wanted to.

[0]: https://hn.algolia.com/

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/lists