[estel]

Even if you accept that this isn't wrong because it's what customers want; if it's broadly unknown (by this community) it becomes newsworthy because HN would probably not want to think of itself as at the bottom of the barrel, and will be more than willing to move away from a host that shows such a flagrant disregard for security.

[raganwald]

It isn't wrong in exactly the same way that selling cigarettes isn't wrong. I'm not saying it isn't noteworthy, just that like the tobacco problem, we shouldn't fall victim to thinking that Hover.com's choices are the only problem.