It wasn't. I agree there's a little bit of wrongness to that, but I hope his parent post won't mind too much, because there's a lot of truth to his point. Often we get more information like this, a fuller understanding of how Americans have been paying billions of dollars to fund this surveillance weapon that threatens the human race, and find an extremely well-written post by an obviously highly intelligent tptacek at the top, explaining why, strictly speaking, this is all legal -- or something. I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds it annoying.
Oh, I figured I was missing some context. I still hope that's the case. I'm not sure what value there is to replying to imagined posts by people who aren't posting, and hijacking the top rated comment to boot.
Those posts usually have a lot of responses that rise to the challenge though, and without any opposition or advocacy for the devil, much less (or even nothing) is learned. I don't think it's fair to call him out like that, HN is better than this and posts can be dealt with on a one by one basis.
Take off all the nicks, for maximum message resolution.
