Ya a lot of people on this site are ideologically positioned in a way that required demonizing CA. I don’t have any skin in that game but it seems pretty clearly A Thing to me from the other side of the country.

> This has 70 upvotes within 30 minutes. This feels like an astroturf.

Not really surprising given the audience, HN has an awful lot of neo-Technolibertarian types.

The kind who used to complain about government regulation of free speech, and now complain about anything that gets in the way of amassing massive amounts of capital at any social/environmental/political cost.