If what you say is true then Hacker News cannot remove any submission or any comment. Unless some content is more “freedomtastic” than others but then that lea

If what you say is true then Hacker News cannot remove any submission or any comment. Unless some content is more “freedomtastic” than others but then that leads to determining what is acceptable speech and what is not. That is more dangerous than allowing private entities complete control because the central tenet of freedom of expression is that all expression is equally free. In actuality no speech is more or less valid— you just have no obligation to propagate it no matter how important or unimportant it is. And the scale argument, what most people fall back to when they realize that their initial position is indefensible, is irrelevant. A single word written on a scrap piece of paper read by one person is just as important as a mass-messaging appeal that is vital to the billions. An organization, vital to the very existence of all human beings on earth has the same rights to control their property as a single homeless person whose only possessions are the things he carries on his person. Or at least, they should. Perfection is unattainable but we should strive for it so that systems where a homeless person doesn’t have the same protections as a multibillion-dollar corporation should not see calls for the large entity to have its rights curtailed but instead should see calls for the small entity to have its rights enhanced. As far as I’m aware the only exceptions to this, broadly speaking, have been those made for health and safety purposes or when entities have been granted a license or permission to own finite public resources like the radio spectrum, or if criminal law has been violated.