> For the average person, being published in WaPo may still be sufficient, but this is a tech related article being discussed on a site full of people who have a much better than average understanding of tech.

I agree but also look at the responses to my comment above and the version in the main thread.

People here aren't responding as techies, regardless of them being techies or not. I'm asking for help demonstrating or countering the claim but most responses are not responding in a way where we're trying to do this. Most responses are still knee jerk reactions. I understand how people misinterpret my comment as a stronger claim, and that is my bad, but it's also hard to avoid. So I want to agree with you but I also want to make sure *our* actions align with *our* words

I would like to keep HN a techie culture but it's a battle we're losing