If your decisions are affecting access to something, it's reasonable to call it gatekeeping, whether it's through your positive actions restricting access (and

If your decisions are affecting access to something, it's reasonable to call it gatekeeping, whether it's through your positive actions restricting access (and passivity allowing access) or your actions allowing access (and passivity restricting access). In this case though it's through effects which are not directly in YC's control, so it would be unreasonable to blame them for this. It can be gatekeeping without it being intentional or even something you can reasonably fix yourself.