Tech companies are not immune to the negative side effects that come with large centralized institutions, even if it started in Silicon Valley. I don&#x27;t believe we&#x27;re ignorant to this fact.<p>We tend to rally against centralization and attempts to control information. Which is exactly why this is frontpage on HN.<p>FB has been consistently attacked for this type of stuff for years. That&#x27;s a healthy sign of our community valuing freedom&#x2F;markets&#x2F;algorithms over the risks of handing over large amounts of power to a few humans. It seems even Facebook even values this approach as their own technology reaches parity with human curation:<p>&gt; Several former curators said that as the trending news algorithm improved, there were fewer instances of stories being injected.