Most thoughtful comments that get downvoted soon get voted back up by other users. That's one reason why it's against the HN guidelines to comment about downvoting. At least half the time your comment is soon obsolete.

Instead of posting comments like this, please just upvote and trust your fellow users. If you (or anyone) think a comment has been treated particularly unfairly, you're welcome to email us at [email protected].

It wasn't thoughtful; the very premise of it (that this was sent to the rest of the planet before it was sent confidentially to the boardmembers) is factually incorrect.

I gingerly suggest you put some work into identifying the "very premise" of comments, because that was not the "very premise" of Grellas' comment.

Grellas' is raising the point that this letter concerns a two-year-old dispute between two gigantic American corporations, one of which is a credit card company, but frames itself as an urgent public policy concern.

You can believe that concern is irrelevant, but you can't pretend that it's something it's not.