Your link is blocked too. As long as you paste it into a new tab you're fine. I'm not going to bother looking up the specific tweet he said this in but jwz has "no time for HN"
I actually almost agree, that perhaps HN should create some sort of gateway that decreases the bandwidth costs of content creators.
Torvalds behaviour is justified, as he provides, despite the rough tone, constructive criticism.
JWZ doesn’t even do that.
(Also, sending people a plaintext page explaining the issue would cost less of his traffic, and be less problematic)