I thinking HN blacking out is a bad strategy. If Google did that, then its different, because it is responsible for huge amount of web-traffic and there would b

I thinking HN blacking out is a bad strategy. If Google did that, then its different, because it is responsible for huge amount of web-traffic and there would be uproar among many businesses. Fairly speaking, HN is not such a big player (like Google), silencing itself may be counter productive in that, people might not care and whatever attention it was bringing might be lost for that time frame!