Please don't take HN threads on flamewar tangents. Jumping into the nearest lava pit immediately upon some provocation is, to quote my son when he was two, "what we not do".

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

The letter only mentions Greenwald to appropriately credit his reporting along with hers for the founding basis of The Intercept. Otherwise the mention of his departure from The Intercept is notably absent.

Lack of mention of the manner and specific reason for his departure are highly suspicious in and of themselves.

I mean, he left because as a founder of the intercept, he had a contract item that editors couldn't deny him the ability to publish in the intercept on the grounds of content. When they told him that he couldn't publish anything that could be construed as against Biden, he left as they had broken their contract with him.

Yes. IIRC they were going to let him publish the story, he just had to remove everything about Joe Biden, lol.

Please don't post unsubstantive comments.

Edit: you've been using HN primarily (exclusively?) for political and ideological battle. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of what ideology they're battling for (and regardless of overgeneralizations about "deities"). We have to, because this is the #1 thing that destroys HN for its intended purpose of curious conversation, and because raging hellfires have burning all over this site lately. You've also broken the site guidelines egregiously and repeatedly in other ways, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25694321. That's not cool.

I've therefore banned your account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email [email protected] and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

No, we don't agree with whoever your political adversaries are. We're merely trying to maintain some semblance of an interesting internet forum, or at least to stave off decline: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....

I have been talking politics due to a recent coup attempt. This bubble you are attempting to create here, in the name of "content moderation", is just weird.

I am not lighting fires, I am pointing out unpopular opinions and statements of fact.

I see where you are coming from, but this is enforcing group think under the guise of community management.

Banning me for pointing out attacking sacred cows is not allowed here is as much of a bookend as I require.

It isn't just recent. For example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25549202 is the sort of ideological blast we don't want here, regardless of which way you point. Earlier too: e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24961547. When accounts build up a pattern of abusing HN like that, we ban them.

"Pointing out unpopular opinions and statements of fact" and "banning me for attacking sacred cows" are what every troll says (right or left). Even if that were a fair description of snarky flaming, which it isn't, you don't need to break the site guidelines to do those things. That's the issue here. Most commenters manage to stay within the guidelines, so it's not hard if you choose to.

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