According to what? A social contract? The written law? Some ethical/moral foundation?
The answer depends on what standard you're using.
In my opinion, yes they do have that responsibility. Once you attain a level of social and economic power on par with eBay, you have the responsibility to ensure that your actions do not limit free access to information.
If we were talking about a company that does 10k in sales a year -- they do not have that responsibility. But since we're talking about a company that does 4B in sales a year -- yes, according to my moral foundation, they do have that responsibility.
I value free speech and the freedom of expression pretty high on my list of important things though, while it seems like you value the ability of a billion dollar corporation to profit and maintain their brand image much higher than that.
I don't understand how people can think it's safe to eat food prepared by someone else, as long as you don't go near them. You know food is a transmission vector, right? If the cook or the waiter are sick, chances are they're infecting their patrons.
> Having worked alongside longtime vim users, that's almost never the case. There's often more time spent on finding out/remembering the efficient way to get to a particular piece of code.
Longtime vim users who didn't know how to use vim? That's... interesting.
Quite the opposite actually, by the time your hand even finds the mouse the vim user will already have jumped to the desired code block and have started editing it.