"Broker" is right there in the title of the post.

Baby's gotta get some cash somewhere.

An MQTT Broker just mean server, that's MQTT terminology.

Dark humor is like food.

Not everybody gets it.

Here it's more Poe's law.

Maybe?

Poe's law is always described as being about parodies of extreme viewpoints, not about perceived misunderstandings of what is being commented on.

I don't think that the viewpoint that these people will sell your data in a heartbeat is extreme.