[ziddoap]

>Who's side are you on? Are you defending the guy with conflicting interests who is on the board and simultaneously selling a tor removal kit?

From my reading, they didn't claim to take either side nor comment on the article in question, but made a meta-comment. Which is okay to do.

[aliqot]

Yeah but it sucks for the rest of us who were hoping for informed adult convo but instead must witness this.

[ziddoap]

I have yet to read a single HN thread which does not involve some sort of meta-commenting or tangential conversation, exactly like what is happening in this thread.