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Your last sentence breaks the site guideline against insinuations of astroturfing (and spying or shilling and all the rest of it). Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here? If anyone wants further explanation, there is plenty at the links here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19496892.

Also, please don't use the tired trope of "whataboutism" on HN. It contains no information, and is a form of name-calling that breaks the site guidelines as well. More on that: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Your comment would be fine without that last sentence.

Apologies for breaking the guidelines. I admit the insinuation wasn't entirely appropriate. I regularly encounter obvious pro-China astroturfing on the Internet and I jumped to a premature conclusion/attack in this case.

I appreciate the response. We have to be really cautious about this, because the cost of getting it wrong is so high, both to the community and to anyone who is unfairly accused. If you look at the thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19401961 you'll see an example of this.

If you’re a deadbeat dad and your wages are garnished, you’re blocked from travel because you don’t have any money. And if you spend the money on travel instead of your kids, the Court would know instantly in states where the Court systems plug into your bank accounts. We already do this. The Chinese system just seems more efficient. Obviously this is a horror show in a country without due process, but I have no problem with debtors being denied niceties.

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