How is a very real situation at all hypothetical? Because it goes against the narrative you're screaming?
Pick one. You are a publisher or a platform. The days of companies having their cake and eating it too need to be over.
Also, HN's an aggregator, at least come with legit comparisons if you want to even try and make a salient point, for once.
And if getting rid of HN meant all of this shit would end, I'd forget it existed. Youtube made itself a lynch-pin of society by begging us to join and host our videos in the beginning, then they got so big they felt they didn't need us, and the censor waves began.
Now they've taken away dislike counts solely to appease companies buying ads on their platform.
I absolutely love how you are all for censorship of videos on YouTube, but you seem to abhor the thought of HN going away.
You are willing to silence people whom you disagree with, but heaven forbid they come for the platform you happen to use :)