Classy. What a waste of effort, writing the article was, then. I hope it was at least cathartic, because it sure as shit isn't forwarding the conversation one fucking iota.

Considering Ken broke the story in the first place, and there would be no "conversation" otherwise, I'm pretty sure he's done approximately infinitely more to "forward" it than you have.

Actually, I'd argue he's set the entire conversation back considerably. My inaction is much less harmful than this post, to the conversation overall.

Hey, man, I tried something less Popehatty: it just didn't take off. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9749699

"Reason's Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch note that the subpoena originally appeared without an accompanying gag order. Instead, it only contained a request that the contents of the order not be shared with anyone."

The lesson there is that if you get a subpoena without a gag order, you need to immediately broadcast it far and wide -- before the gag order comes.

FWIW, thanks for posting that. I can hardly read the OP.