[grepthisab]

Truly awful take. Enough with the "both sides" nonsense. One side is objectively bad. Even accidentally taking electronics into a SCIF can be grounds for losing ones security clearance and getting in major trouble. These people planned it, and executed that plan, for a publicity stunt. Enough has been said about why it wasn't necessary in any way for them to act like this, so I won't go into it, see other responses to your comment.

[dang]

Please don't take HN threads further into partisan flamewar. Nothing good can come of this here, if you define 'good' as what's expressed by the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[zests]

I feel like HN is becoming more explicitly political and I think that this is a poor direction for the site to move.

[dang]

Fear not. It fluctuates, but the range of fluctuation has been stable for many years. See e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934367 from 2010 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157485 from 2013 as reactions to previous swings.

More explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869

[pjc50]

We tried the "no politics" experiment, and it turns out that almost everything is political. But not everything has to be partisan.