There is nothing pointing towards anything obvious. To me, it did not seem like he was replying to the OP because he stated: "That is insane. Terrible news and terrible decision.Whoever is arguing in favor of it is effectively a government censorship and anti-privacy shill". It seemed his comment was directed more towards a recent post (hence the question).

I doubt he would return to the forum after more than two years of absence to call theymos an anti-privacy shill and call him someone who is advocating for government censorship, that is I asked him who he was replying to.