When I hear "freelance journalists, adjunct professors, and anonymous posters" the first word I think of is "democracy", not "threat".

The idea that anybody gets to say whatever they want is how you have a free society. Treat those people like threats and you have authoritarianism. Whether the end result is left tyranny or right tyranny, I don't want it.

I like journalists and professors personally, much more than the avg HN poster. I'm being provocative: we edit our own feeds, and so our collection of follows threatens our sense of the world.

I used to think that when the internet wasn't what it is today. Now I hear 'unearned appeals to authority and randos whose opinion/thoughts I wouldn't care about in real life'.