[cato_the_elder]

HN is a forum for nerds, not a public square. Even then, it's quite pro-freespeech.

[case0x]

I hear the twitter = public square analogy a lot but I fail to understand it. Here and on Twitter discussions take place. What is the difference?

[oska]

One very obvious difference is that twitter does not purport to be a forum for any particular community or field of interest. So in that sense it's much more of a town square in that ppl can (or should be able to) tweet about anything.

[zaphirplane]

Who is volunteering and binding them to be a public square with slippery slop values