That right is what the people who own the site have , the people who use the site are doing so on the good faith of the owners and managers . You don ' t have the right to abuse somebody ' s good faith just because their political alignment is different from yours . Are you advocating for thought police now ? You ' re the one saying that the site management shouldn ' t be allowed to troll people on their own site . To take action to silence and edit what they say , is an abuse of power . That is simply not right . The change was one that would be easily and instantly noticed , and was quickly reverted afterwards . The change was one that could easily be proven , and thus could not be leveraged misrepresent the views of the posters . Essentially he was using his admin powers to troll them . Sure it ' s not right , and it ' s an abuse of power , but trolling people who are being dicks to you on purpose , in a way that doesn ' t seriously impact their lives or inhibit their use of the site , is not a serious abuse of power . People are concerned that this reveals secret admin powers , but those would have existed anyway and this kind of manipulation is easy to find and prove . The actual action itself was harmless .