No; he’s saying that you have to choose: if you really believe that the same information should be equally available to everyone, you need to admit HFT that reacts to that information as it becomes available.

It’s perfectly reasonable to argue that shouldn’t be allowed, but then you are (implicitly) arguing that either (a) complete market information should not be publicly available or (b) there should be some mechanism which prevents some individuals from acting on that information as quickly as they would like to.