The quality of posts in this thread are unusually low for Hacker News. Is this place being brigaded? Extremely uncharitable readings and frankly conspiracy theories everywhere.
Trifecta of bad Internet discourse here. A Russian who runs a chat service that competes with inferior services beloved by nerds is arrested on nebulous charges related to his platform being somewhat censorship resistant. Beware ye who enter
This tends to happen whenever there is any tinge of geopolitics in the discussion. That subject has a remarkable ability of making monkeys out of people.
