Critical comments about corporations are welcome on HN, and it's not as if the site lacks for those! But we want substantive, interesting criticisms. Not the internet clichés, reflexive putdowns, outright fantasies, and other detritus that forums tend to accumulate.

Putting down other commenters as "astroturfers", "shills", etc., based on zero evidence other than someone having an opposing view (which is to say, no evidence at all) is the oldest forum cliché in the book, and one of the most damaging, so we don't allow it here, and haven't for many years. HN discussion quality hasn't suffered from that—it benefits from it, and would benefit even more if everyone would stick to that rule.

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