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My conclusion on hackernews being "pro-regulation" is based on observance that posts discussing the downside of regulation are often downvoted.

I agree with what you said. Knowing that repealing regulation is much less frequent than producing new regulation -- we should assume all new regulation is high risk, since its' impact is known to have tradeoffs, is to some degree created from perverse incentives and minority interests, and once in place is immutable. Regulation can be good and it can be bad.

So if we know that regulation carries high risk, we need to be very apprehensive to anyone calling for more regulation such as this article via "https://www.kayrros.com/". We don't know who they are, what they want, and what their suggested change in policy affects in net to humanity over time.

I guess what I want is for companies like "https://www.kayrros.com/" to be held to a higher bar and be more responsible for the outcome of their research and conclusions.