And you don't have the choice to buy a different brand of phone?
Limited space is NOT why newspapers have editors. There's a reason the NY Times is so different from the Wall Street Journal.
As I just said in another comment, Even Linux has King Linus. And Android has King Page, Queen Rubin and a host of Lords (Verizon, AT&T, Samsung, etc). Don't kid yourself.
And to repeat, I think Apple's decision in this case is lame and cowardly.
Newspapers have limited space and no filtering capabilities for readers.
>How about Hacker News? Shall we lobby pg to remove the ability to flag an article, and let this place turn into Reddit?
I have the choice to use my web browser to read sites other than HN (and I don't need to jailbreak my browser to do so).