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I don't know why you would expect an ethos of free speech from a privately-owned, privately funded service provided to you at-will by venture capital. YC isn't
by bigyabai 6mo ago
I don't know why you would expect an ethos of free speech from a privately-owned, privately funded service provided to you at-will by venture capital. YC isn't a charity organization.
- pmdulaney 6mo agoI think you're right, not essentially because YC is a privately-funded service, but because their sense is that the majority of their users enjoy expressing their disapproval of those with whom they disagree.
- bigyabai 6mo agoThe fundamental reason why you're not entitled to free speech is because HN is not public property. You can manufacture whatever kind of persecution complex you want, I don't care.
- pmdulaney 6mo agoI'm not talking about a legal entitlement, hence ethos, not right. You know, just common courtesy -- the kind that resists the temptation to throw around accusations of "persecution complex". But perhaps the concept is foreign to your kind if thinking.