I'm having trouble coming up with reasons that this isn't appropriate for HN. A programmer, who just-so-happens to be a founder of noisebridge, is being harass

I'm having trouble coming up with reasons that this isn't appropriate for HN. A programmer, who just-so-happens to be a founder of noisebridge, is being harassed by the federal government for participating in an online newspaper. He's effectively being harassed for participating in the types of things that programmers participate in. Since this is hacker news, most of the people here are programmers, meaning most of the people here are interested in it, meaning that it's appropriate. tl;dr: programmers tend to be interested in news about programmers and how their activities as programmers can effect them. A parallel might be a musician being harassed by their government for writing anti-war songs, and a story about it being covered on a music website.