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Please don't seek out uncharitable interpretations of what people say, when (as roymurdock has helpfully shown) the context makes it clear how unnecessary that is.

HN users sometimes feel that the rules are off when a rich and famous person is the target, but that misunderstands why we have the rules. It's not to protect the rich and famous, who (as cynics are fond of pointing out) don't need it, except of course insofar as they're human beings like anyone else. Rather, it's to protect the community from becoming a mean place that only mean people would want to be part of, and eventually not even them.