Someone is surprised.

Someone else berates them for wanting to enforce the thing they were surprised at, despite zero evidence.

Agreed that the original comment did not add to the discourse but this response does come across as a bit harsh.

Is elpais like a national major? Is it similar to seeing an article from lemonde on HN?

Yeah no fair enough, I guess it's just an odd statement really. It's a Spanish language News outlet though, and given the amount of countries that speak Spanish natively just seemed an out of place comment.