> or example, we can forbid corporations usage of algorithms beyond sorting by date of the post

Hacker News sorted by "new" is far less valuable to me than the default homepage which has a sorting algorithm that has a good balance between freshness and impact. Please don't break it.

> It is you that may have misinterpreted what regulations are.

The definition of regulation is literally: "a rule or directive made and maintained by an authority." I am just scared about who the authority is going to be.