[izacus]

Why do some of you so badly, sickly want companies like Google to be the police and block your content on their whim?

This site is full of proof they're biased and incompetent, why are you so prepared to give them rights that belong to governments?

[throwaway48476]

There was once a time people were able to host their own content.

[izacus]

Yeah, but HNers now demand that the hosters police and surveil the content of the customers they host for - even if they have no warrant or takedown requests from the governments.

Which, obviously, leaves only the largest companies able to play the mercenary police.

[throwaway48476]

The big companies found a way to centralize the decentralized internet.

[johnklos]

> rights that belong to governments

It's not that at all. If you report phishing / malicious content to them, you have a right to expect them to take action in a reasonable amount of time - not weeks, and certainly not never. This isn't a "right", this is a reasonable way to work on the Internet that's worked since the '80s.

Do they have a "right" to just ignore abuse complaints and host whatever they want, even if it's illegal, malicious or that violates someone's copyright, and to ignore all requests to take appropriate action?

[7bit]

If you host a house party, and you invite a guy that sells meth. And someone tells you that one of your guests overdosed in the bathroom and died. Then you let the guest sell more meth, although it was reported to you.

Demanding you throw out the meth seller has absolutely nothing to do with "giving them rights that belong to governments". It's your right of house rules to throw him out. And it's your responsibility as the party host.

But who am I telling this... A Freedom-troll will never understand...