> It’s a blatant copyright violation.

That's debatable. As a matter of public interest and safety I say it's fair use to post the news article here.

Fair use is never an entire news article. If the poster took one or two sentences that would be fair use. But that’s not what this is.

Fair use is more complicated than that. I see no hard line rule from the courts saying that a whole article couldn't be shared under fair use.

https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/

But also, it's a Facebook post. The author's not selling subscriptions to this content. He's not charging per download. He put it in the public square himself, and in the comments he even positively comments about it being shared more widely. I would be very surprised if the author felt as strongly about this as you do.

Not really, it's technically a copyright violation just like SciHub is.

Whether the rightsholder would consider this a problem or not is another question.

Honestly hadn't considered that angle. I assumed the writing was intended for public consumption, but you're right, I should have checked.

I'm attempting to contact Bruce, though it seems I'm past the edit window on the original comment.

Don’t worry. You’ve done nothing wrong. You just copied a public Facebook posting in a comment for a HN posting for said article. At no moment you violated any copyright or license.

It’s not Facebook I care about, it’s whoever wrote the post. I’m a photographer. When I find people pirating my work from social media sites I send them takedown notices. If not wanting people distributing my work makes me a corporate stooge, then so be it.

There's a difference between art and a statement of facts. What we're talking about here is mostly a statement of facts, written with the objective of informing the public instead of profit (the fire department doesn't rely on online "exposure" to fund itself).

What does the person who wrote the post lose by having a small subset of people ordinarily unable to view their original public post get to see the contents nonetheless?

Then I have 2 reasons to upvote this post. Not giving FB my traffic and not caring about copyright.