Anonymous: "Directly commenting on the consequences of the topic of the article is apparently off-topic."

Yes. Critical thinking is hard. That's why (for the most part) we only stop to consider issues as they come up in the news, as opposed to being constantly mindful of the frameworks around us.

Despite claiming to support such radical causes in the pseudo-public realm online reputation effects, many forumers remain conditioned to the concept of the geographic sovereign nation state as the optimal and inviolable mode of human organization. Anonymous may or may not be effective, but to be cognitively offended by the possibility of alternatives does not require rational consideration of the circumstances.

It's not their fault. Silver platters of turds are still silver platters.