If calling out attempts to use those suffering the after effects of a natural disaster as props in the defense of Google's shady attempts to lock down the web "violates HN guidelines", maybe it's your guidelines that are the problem.
To be fair, the person you were critiquing was referring to a comment by someone else who had observed the problem from Puerto Rico. Bigger picture implications aside, do we have any reason to believe AMP wouldn’t work as a CDN for folks in such situations?