Ask people who work in policy, the reason things are a certain way is rarely technical, its usually political, which is a qaint way of saying decisions are made by corrupt power brokers.
You're not allowed to accuse other users of astroturfing or shilling without evidence. Having an opposing view doesn't count as evidence. If you have sincere suspicion that someone is astroturfing, you're asked to email hn@ycombinator.com. We take such emails seriously, look at the data, and if we find evidence, we act on it. I've explained all this dozens of times:
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If you poke around HN search you'll find cases where we banned people for abusing the site this way, but the overwhelming majority of accusations are just users slinging dirt at users who happen to disagree with them, and we're adamant about that not becoming more of a thing here.
That's entirely uncalled for. Just because you disagree does not make someone a government apologist.
I guess you'll call me a government apologist next.
Also,what he wrote is wrong, chances are not better than even that some random issue is a certain way because of some complex technical reason, most decisions in DC are made through the lens of politics, ask anyone who works in policy and they will say the same.