You are supposing that people would only use total control of a platform to forbid things almost nobody wants to do. This seems rather a waste. It's like being superman and using the ability to fly to get to business meetings slightly faster.
One would suppose instead that the logical thing to do is create financial opportunities that wouldn't otherwise exist by restricting what you can do without allowing them to insert themselves in the revenue stream.
I recall a long junked verizon phone I owned before android was a thing that could only ever be used with verizon. Despite paying for the phone in full including its GPS because Verizon had full control of the platform the only way to actually use the GPS was to pay Verizon $10 per month for navigation.
An environment where I could repurpose my existing phone instead of buying a new one when I switched carriers, where I could keep my phone number even, or one in which actually using the GPS didn't cost as much over time as the entire phone didn't exist but if you asked me at the time if I would like to live in our present universe or one which those restrictions remained the norm I should easily be able to answer.
I'm Joe, the guy who made takejohndown.com. Thanks for defending me on that other post, I saw a bunch of traffic from hackernews, surprised the post somebody was made was deleted, but then again I've been banned from the /r/NYC sub now just for posting a link. You won't believe how toxic it is there: https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/s5nvz0/my_landlord_doe...
I am sympathetic but if you inject it into every thread you will probably get banned and unfortunately it will be correct to do so.
Hacker news is about aggregating interesting things to read not a collection of grievances. For example this thread is about tech and if half of it was random grievances it would be a shitty website. Asking someone if they sympathize with your issue and asking them if you can paint it on the side of their house will get you two very different answers.
You and other tenants need to get together and either sue or more broadly look at how misdeeds by landlords are handled in your city and or state.
One would suppose instead that the logical thing to do is create financial opportunities that wouldn't otherwise exist by restricting what you can do without allowing them to insert themselves in the revenue stream.
I recall a long junked verizon phone I owned before android was a thing that could only ever be used with verizon. Despite paying for the phone in full including its GPS because Verizon had full control of the platform the only way to actually use the GPS was to pay Verizon $10 per month for navigation.
An environment where I could repurpose my existing phone instead of buying a new one when I switched carriers, where I could keep my phone number even, or one in which actually using the GPS didn't cost as much over time as the entire phone didn't exist but if you asked me at the time if I would like to live in our present universe or one which those restrictions remained the norm I should easily be able to answer.