Someday it could be this site that faces the same threat kiwi is facing right now because you will eventually say something lucas' ilk or whatever elites behind the scenes don't like then you'll understand too late.
Hacker News is part of the elite, so that will never happen. Just look at how VC and YC companies Uber and AirBnB have eroded workers' rights and zoning laws for elite profit. That's the secret with all of these companies; they claim that using computers means they needn't follow the laws. Look at how YouTube shows children things no television network ever would've been allowed to show them, for another example.
Most specifically, Hacker News, were its current peers to decide to cease to do business with it, can find other peers.
> That's the secret with all of these companies; they claim that using computers means they needn't follow the laws. Look at how YouTube shows children things no television network ever would've been allowed to show them, for another example.
I haven't seen evidence that YouTube is breaking the law in this regard. The law governing network TV is complicated and pinned philosophically on the finite airwaves that are a national resource (so there are some trade-offs a private institution makes with the public, represented by the government and laws, for the exclusive privilege of having its use of a slice of bandwidth protected from interference). No such "finite national resource" management concern exists for data from private websites travelling across privately-owned wires onto private computers at the request of individuals in the privacy of their own homes.