It's an ideological battle topic of the sort that leads to repetitive discussion and usually nasty flamewar. That's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

I think it's an important topic that has an empirical, objective answer. We just don't yet know and agree on what that answer is, but it's not a matter of mere opinion. I agree that flame wars are bad, but civilized discussion is also possible.

Maybe, but you can say that about most politicized questions, so from a practical moderation point of view in the short term, it doesn't change the outcome.

We can also say that about the big Apple topic which is going on currently, yet that one is acceptable.

Sorry, I've lost the thread here. The Apple/EU/appstore story is on topic for HN and I don't think there have been tons of duplicates on the front page.

Taking a thread into an offtopic flamewar tangent about DEI is, from my perspective, a different question altogether.