breitbart.com is banned, not for being right wing but for being overly sensational. Plenty of comparable left-wing sites are also banned, and plenty of right-wing sites aren&#x27;t banned (e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=nationalreview.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=nationalreview.com</a>). This isn&#x27;t an ideological call.<p>rt.com is penalized but not banned because occasionally good stories show up there. That&#x27;s true of most media sites on HN, though the weight of the penalty varies. Again not an ideological call.