I agree with him 100%. This is a bit of a disappointment. Hacker News is very slowly going the way of reddit. Very slowly.

I hope we can eventually keep this in check.

I don't. Hackers have long had a hippy element to their culture and plenty of people on here clearly find it of benefit. It's a valid topic to discuss.

Who made this Jeff person the thought police anyway? Does he have a rival site or something...?

I've been suspecting that his recent blog post "The value of downvoting" to be an insidious attempt at getting more PR for his site, stackoverflow by dissing HN.

Now we're accusing Jeff to be the thought police. That's definitely not Redditish.

Plenty of people on this site get all bent out of shape about copyright violation or ad-blockers, but obviously not illegal drug use, crude swearing, or pornography. If you're just going to shout "censorship!" and "thought police!" at anybody who thinks differently than you and get upvoted for it here, then I am also questioning the mission here.