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It was impossible to get most of what I was used to at a competitive price when living in Sweden. I paid, for example, about $70 USD in tariffs in order to retr

It was impossible to get most of what I was used to at a competitive price when living in Sweden. I paid, for example, about $70 USD in tariffs in order to retrieve the light bulbs I ordered online from post office. Your package is basically government property until you pay the taxes on it which are rarely specified at the time of purchase. I missed Amazon when I lived in Sweden. The issue is not the value Amazon brought us from their excessive competition. It is the relationship with government that should be illegal. Americans pay taxes and those tax dollars go to support Amazon's workers with food stamps, welfare, etc - this is not capitalism, but the socialistic policies that have been growing for nearly a century now. Also, if the government cannot defend the people against The Washington Post's propaganda, then it is not doing its job. It is treason to support other governments and foreign entities above one's own government - which the Post and others very often do. If the US was a free market for the people, then the government would have raided Bezos' home & business a long time ago... But I don't blame him - this is the type of behavior we are promoting without enforcing separation between government & private entities.

mdpopescu 8y ago
In case you didn't know, you managed to get shadowbanned... HN is very opposed to getting outside the Overton window and most attempts to do so will be swiftly punished.
- detaro 8y ago
  "shadow banning" generally means a ban the person banned isn't told about, which doesn't apply here. EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17491521 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17491521
  - pokemongoaway 8y ago
    It does, because if I load the various threads I have commented on without logging in, then I can see that my comments are no longer shown. They did not tell me this was happening. Edit: Your edit links to the original ban, which of course I disagree with. But when I was unbanned, I was not told that I was actually shadow banned - and not unbanned.
- pokemongoaway 8y ago
  Yes, I've been emailing them about it and they won't reply. They first emailed me saying that people can (have to) support you in comments - and I did receive support via comments - but they still decided to censor my view... And I didn't realize it until I had written many more comments. By the way, I highly support your previously downvoted comment, "The only science you're allowed to be skeptical of (on HN) is science other people are also skeptical of..."

mdpopescu 8y ago

In case you didn't know, you managed to get shadowbanned... HN is very opposed to getting outside the Overton window and most attempts to do so will be swiftly punished.

detaro 8y ago
"shadow banning" generally means a ban the person banned isn't told about, which doesn't apply here. EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17491521 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17491521
- pokemongoaway 8y ago
  It does, because if I load the various threads I have commented on without logging in, then I can see that my comments are no longer shown. They did not tell me this was happening. Edit: Your edit links to the original ban, which of course I disagree with. But when I was unbanned, I was not told that I was actually shadow banned - and not unbanned.
pokemongoaway 8y ago
Yes, I've been emailing them about it and they won't reply. They first emailed me saying that people can (have to) support you in comments - and I did receive support via comments - but they still decided to censor my view... And I didn't realize it until I had written many more comments. By the way, I highly support your previously downvoted comment, "The only science you're allowed to be skeptical of (on HN) is science other people are also skeptical of..."