What's with all the loonies in here?
A private company censoring content on its platform is well within its rights, especially when that content conflicts with the company's policies.
This has literally nothing to do with freedom of speech.
A private company censoring content on its platform is well within its rights, especially when that content conflicts with the company's policies.
This has literally nothing to do with freedom of speech.
Btw, generalizations like "HN has always had a libertarian/right leaning nature" are in the eye of the beholder. I could give you a long, long, long list of the other side saying that the site is dominated by left/etc. views. In both cases it's a cognitive bias, basically a variation of sample bias: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....