[haswell]

> in order to protect rent seeking that harms education

Without making any value judgements about the comment in question, it’s worth noting that it is possible to be both against rent seeking and take issue with the source.

These are not mutually exclusive, and the accusation is unnecessary.

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That is essentially what I believe is the only reasonable answer, which is that some people want to be informed but they do not want to inform others (i.e. share the link) if they think the source will embarrass them. The public value would come from their work to unearth and share an alternate source.

There are also people who do not want to be informed if the source is “bad,” but they’ll never admit it so shouldn’t be asked, and I don’t think OP or most people here are that entrenched.