>In fact, I'd go so far as to question why he chose today to register an account on hacker news.
He has actually commented here with a different account in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=FlorianMueller
Your personal attacks really don't have any relevance to the legal questions at hand. Trying to muddy the discussion with irrelevant speculation about people's motives is totally unnecessary when the legislation is there for any of us to read.