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

You are asking people to break guidelines.

This piece is outrage porn. Greenwald just rants and gets people riled up, but there's nothing of substance here, he's just pantsing random people. It doesn't gratify any hacker curiosity, it's tightly coupled to politics, and it's just more of these "Twitter wars" pieces that I'm seeing more and more these days, where people siphon content off Twitter, act like it's a huge war, and it's literally just a handful of literal "Who?" type people.