There is a whole pile of dang comments about this brouhaha, he wasn't 'blacklisted', that's just something Gruber imagined because his articles don't do all tha

There is a whole pile of dang comments about this brouhaha, he wasn't 'blacklisted', that's just something Gruber imagined because his articles don't do all that well on HN these days. People become less popular without HNs help.