[xvector]

This website is not a tool - not really.

Your keyboard is.

Censoring AI generation itself is very much like censoring your keyboard or text editor or IDE.

Edit: Of course, "literally everything is a tool", yada yada. You get what I mean. There is a meaningful difference between that translate our thoughts to a digital medium (keyboards) and tools that share those thoughts that others.

[jimkleiber]

A website is almost certainly a tool. It has servers and distributes information typed on thousands of keyboards to millions of screens.

[skydhash]

HN is the one doing the distribution, not the user. The latter is free to type whatever it wants, but it is not entitled to have HN distributes his words. Just like a publisher do not have to publish a book he doesn’t want to.

[gardenhedge]

When someone posts on FB, they don't consider that FB is publishing their content for them