>What is going on with those new accounts preaching against online privacy recently?

From my experience (as I prefer freedom of information) if you are against privacy you tend to get downvoted. I think downvotes can lead to your account being rate limited which is annoying so it makes sense that people would want to use another account.

Perhaps you're spotting recent reddit transplants who don't yet get HN's unique dislike of sarcasm and shallowly dismissive jokes?

I don't think the new account was actually arguing against privacy (those words have basically become a strawman now); rather it was just a bit of dry humour.

I just reread the comment and maybe you are right. I don't know if he edited the comment or if I misread when I wrote my reply, but I didn't see the word "goes". So I read "I believe the argument [...]".