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> I wonder what changed and made them add the new terms of use.

CCPA's April enforcement deadline, most likely.

> I wonder what changed and made them add the new terms of use.

Probably a lawsuit, mandatory arbitration avoids lawsuits. I’m just guessing, I have no concrete info.

Maybe it’s related to their decision to turn YCombinator into a “safe space” for very specific people; or the way YC takes steps to silence some voices while hiding the fact that they’re silenced. These are deliberate decisions that cause the site to work very differently than naive people envision it from working.

I’m not crazy enough to sue over that shit; but somebody might be.

It's hard to tell what these dark insinuations refer to, but there's nothing (that I'm aware of) that hasn't been fully explained many times—nor are there any questions we don't answer. If you're talking about shadowbanning, for example, there's plenty of explanation at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23686672 and the links back from there.