> (too) publicly played favorites lately. So what? Why is that, of itself, bad? My view is that private companies should not host and enable content that make

> (too) publicly played favorites lately. So what? Why is that, of itself, bad? My view is that private companies should not host and enable content that makes the world a worse place to live. Places like Gab or Voat have their view of what is acceptable, and I disagree and condemn them for it. Places like HN have a code with which I largely agree, and I commend them for it. I neither expect, nor desire, companies like to twitter to provide "freedom of speech." Not with the internet and web we currently have, whose technical design overwhelmingly favors bad actors.