I read it in a different way You are free to share as long as you don't actively try to get around the subscription model.

Posting these kinds of Articles on NH can lead to someone wanting to read more lwn articles and pay for it or be forced to dig through the web for premium links

fair enough although

Almost anywhere. Private mail, messages to project mailing lists, and blog entries are all appropriate.

sounds very different to me from HN, one of the most trafficked tech news aggregation websites

The editor explicitly allows HN submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5689018

please read the entire comment, not only the beginning (forgetting for a moment that it's from 2013, 8 years later the situation might be different):

"Certainly I don't want large amounts of our content to be distributed this way, but an occasional posting that puts an LWN article at #1 on HN is going to do us far more good than harm."

You specifically have done this at least a couple of times recently.

We see these accusations in such threads regularly and I'm sick and tired of it. I will stop posting LWN links altogether.

Congratulations, now go bully someone else.

Perhaps go reread your own posts, because if you weren’t trying to medium-aggressively bully it is certainly coming across that way.

Anything beyond the initial (presumably well intentioned but mistargeted) raising of the LWN note reads as an attempt at policing the policies of both HN and LWN by haranguing.