It's just wrong for reasons that are covered in comments near the top. The public editor isn't part of Broder's management, and Musk is vastly exaggerating what she wrote about Broder anyhow.
The sort of tarpit you're talking about wouldn't even affect this link validator. You really think Stack Exchange should have given up on validating links because Github's robots.txt has:
We have so much more to understand about brain functioning in our current paradigm, and no pressing reason to try to build a new physics to help neuroscience. The theory of mind/experience of consciousness is an output of the brain, not part of its architecture.