I think Radley's piece was a great fit. It was about identity theft, which itself is usually on-topic, and also about government activity rubbing up against th

I think Radley's piece was a great fit. It was about identity theft, which itself is usually on-topic, and also about government activity rubbing up against the norms and policies of an online social network, which is usually on-topic. Here's the thesis (and spirit) that makes Radley's piece more HN relevant, to me: It shouldn’t be all that surprising, then, when drug enforcement officials subsequently treat drug offenders as something less than human. If you aren’t fully human, you have no identity to steal.