Btw HN has a single organizing value: intellectual curiosity (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...), so the question of how to relate to "free speech" or any similar concept reduces to: how does it relate to optimizing an internet forum for intellectual curiosity? It's not hard to derive some interesting consequences once you reframe the question that way.
Btw HN has a single organizing value: intellectual curiosity (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...), so the question of how to relate to "free speech" or any similar concept reduces to: how does it relate to optimizing an internet forum for intellectual curiosity? It's not hard to derive some interesting consequences once you reframe the question that way.