Dan, an obviously insulting tone was used while inappropriately putting a demand (not request) to me that I have no legal interest nor actual requirement (even

Dan, an obviously insulting tone was used while inappropriately putting a demand (not request) to me that I have no legal interest nor actual requirement (even under your Guidelines) to satisfy. The allegation that my comments are “unsubstantive” (not having any factual substance) is false and is not proven by my lack of response. I deny that any of my comments were made insincerely or in bad faith. Further, the allegation that my comments are “flamebait” is disproven by the fact that only a few people have ever replied to any of my comments. By the way, their frustration with my refusal to engage and their decision to bring you in to admonish me is not going to help relieve their situation over having such allegiance to untrustworthy Chinese products. The takeaway for Y Combinator is simple: Since at least 2022, it has been a daily staple of the mainstream news media (6am cable business news, newspapers, magazines, ….) to cover the CCP stealing the intellectual property and hacking the national security interests of the United States and its allies. It is bad for a website calling itself “Hacker” News to allow posts about the virtues of Chinese microcontrollers equipped with China-written microcode and/or American microprocessors with China-written UEFI as if the events of the past few years had not taken place, but many will simply assume that you are slow to react, as so many businesses caught in the crossfire are. However, going further and moderating comments on those posts that espouse caution seems to cross a line that is not a good one for Y Combinator to cross. Y Combinator could easily find itself labeled by the mainstream media as a “hacker website” that is an example of how the CCP has infiltrated its hacking technologies into American infrastructure and that cuts directly to your credibility as a VC to take companies public or merge them with already public firms. For more general information on the underlying subject, consider typing the name of your favorite Chinese microcontroller followed by the word “backdoor” into Google —you might even find a recent thread here on Hacker News and note that I had NO participation in it! You might also direct your attention to “APT41 MoonBounce UEFI” and follow that rabbit hole, but don’t forget the China-based startups staffed by conscript-aged personnel that have settled on old (6th gen) Intel processors (whose ME unit is known compromised) for their incredibly popular line of micro "servers". In any case, I am offended and since your Guidelines do not actually prohibit on-topic comments made in good faith simply because some (probably biased) user poses an unsatisfied “accuracy challenge” (maybe out of denial while they neurotically keep sourcing cheap products not unlike those that bought from Huawei all the way up until the final import-restriction here in the US), I believe it would be appropriate for Y Combinator to reset the “downvotes” applied to my comments and remove your admonishment (and this response) from the post.