It's not zero added value - it's actually an insightful point that arises from considering the two trends together. The plugging the book thing seems to be more of a joke at the expense of the original "This is a web page" piece.
OP here. Blahah got it right. The book thing was intended as a bit of a joke. I do think the post is insightful so I'll go ahead & remove the pluggity-plug for the sake of the discussion.
The OP is using 2 common trending topics on HN (return to fundamentalist text values and whistleblowing/privacy issues), with zero added value, to plug his book?
I'll upvote this only so people can see my pretty rude and totally-unlike-me comment at this - fuck you, OP.