I don't think a discussion about this sort of thing on digg or reddit would even begin to approach the high signal/noise ratio of this comment thread. For this reason, I'm not terribly disappointed with the topic digression.
True enough. I guess my point is that there were previous debates about banning TechCrunch, which has articles that are spot-on topic but of questionable validity, and then we get an article about farming regulations shooting to the top spot. I mean c'mon guys, do you want to be picky or not?
Honestly, I have just as much of a laissez-faire libertarian philosophy as the next hacker, but there are plenty of other forums that are better suited to spreading the word. (cough reddit, cough digg)