> You are a pawn

Don't comment like this on HN. Please observe the guidelines, especially these ones:

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We're routinely characterized as taking orders from billionaires, so, it's a change to be accused of that kind of bias.

Fair enough to point out that the parent comment initiated it, though. I hadn't seen it (that's almost always what's happened when we're accused of bias in a subthread) but I've replied to them now.

Do please have a re-read of the guidelines though. We want a variety of points of view to be represented here and we want HN to be a good place for discussing difficult topics, but that can only happen if people make more effort to keep to the guidelines for inherently-controversial topics like this.

Thanks