I'm not "sneering", I'm very intentionally criticizing the members of the HN community who are actively harmful to society.

There's a large (possibly majority) segment of HN's population which is so pro-corporate as to be anti-human. In cases relevant to the previous post, I've had numerous conversations with people on HN where they defend advertisers, including pervasive tracking, ads masquerading as search results, and the belief that advertisers can consent on behalf of users.

Treating such toxic ideology as acceptable in the name of politeness doesn't make HN or the world a better place. The pro-corporate ideologues here say much worse things than anything I said, which was simply an accurate description of HNers' behavior.