Hey, abusing his position as a maintainer is absolutely abusing that social contract, so he does lose some protection that social contract afforded.

He should be uncomfortable, not afraid for his life.

complying with a relatively inconsequential law

This downplays the impact to privacy these laws can have but sure, personal harassment is bad.

By implementing it all in the most brain dead, user space writable fashion

Presumably they could start shipping graphene stock