The information deserves discussion. What he criticizes is choosing a paid-access-only information provider to share this information here. It's probably possible to find the same info somewhere for free and that source should get shared.
HN for last few months is like mainstream TV — links to all these bloombergs, economists, mainstream world news, politics, social justice, all that dirt. It transformed into yet another top news aggregator. Who needs HN now if you can just turn on old nasty TV box and receive the same crappy information?
It sucks but banning this stuff is even worse.