The HN community is international and overwhelmingly not based in Silicon Valley. From his GitHub profile it looks like the author of this project isn't either. So what you said is considerably off the mark. Either way, though, please don't post flamebait here.
As a recipient of email, choosing not to read a message is not an offense against free speech, especially when email has become unusable to the individual without doing so.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html