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Re:Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference by jscn on Thursday May 10, 2012 @09:02PM (#3957012)
HN is owned privately and everyone's ability to use it is at pg's discretion. pg has no duty, implied or otherwise, to provide a platform on which the principles of free speech hold. This is not true of society at large. You seem to be conflating the two.
Re:Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference by alayne on Thursday May 10, 2012 @10:36PM (#3957278)
Nearly every website is owned privately. That doesn't mean we still shouldn't seek free speech as a moral goal. What if Google censored your Gmail messages? You're using it at their discretion, right?