[Bartweiss]

There's no event clearly referenced here.

The Appelbaum crisis is the most recent public drama, but that's mostly a settled matter and a fall has already been taken for it. It would be fairly strange to do this now over that incident.

Given which, it looks like someone involved with a privacy project is refusing to disclose their motives for shutdown, but also shutting down slowly and openly, the way you wouldn't if someone was knocking on your door. This is an ambiguous outcome to almost everyone.

[Torgo]

>It would be fairly strange to do this now over that incident.

It wouldn't be strange if you thought the accusations were bullshit.

[Bartweiss]

That's an interesting point - it hadn't actually occurred to me that this could be a reaction to the reaction. That would fit the timing (and maybe the ambiguity) much better than reacting to the original topic.