This post is Google attempting outrage bait to push for mass surveillance. The comments can't get much better than the topic.

>instead of tribal outrage bait.

I'd say around at least a quarter of the comments in this thread are generic tribal/populist "outrage bait".

Riiight, my comment is the problem that lowers the quality of the very focused, issue-based discussion.

Try to keep your bot from posting comments then.