Those were my initial thoughts as well, but my next thought was that it could very well be that the general public simply does not care about issues like open information. They are happy as long as they get their games or Facebook access, and when faced with a question about such a matter they will believe the authority on the subject. And reading HN provides false hope.
The general public do not care about console modding rights at all. That's why they do not rush to post comments on sony's corporate blog. The majority of people don't even really know what a blog is. Even if they did, they would likely have no motivation to spurt their comments unbidden onto it. What we do here really is deviant behaviour, statistically speaking.
Normal, non-religiously-devoted gamers don't post there either, they inhabit more independent fora. The only people posting there are sony fanboys.
