Comment by SpaceManNabs

> No, it is. That's literally why this happened, it was used as a bargaining chip/to buy time and they never cleaned it up. It's not supposition or a guess, it's the stated intent and consequence.

Unfortunately, I think a lot of hacker news posters give plausible deniability to that leadership in order to avoid cognitive dissonance with how certain political leaders that they support are not business friendly at all.