I’m allowed to criticize you and the article beyond some artificial restrictions you want to add
Sure, it's the internet. You can do what you want.
It just seems bizzare to keep trying to argue against a point no one was making...
It'd be like if I wouldn't stop responding to people in this thread going "yeah, but what about the Gulags? And could women who weren't members of the Party be Cosmonauts? Why won't you respond beyond your artificial limitations!?!"