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Comment by lsh | Hacker News Reader

deehouie, your comment history + account age are a little suspect. Do you have an agenda here?

This is a serious violation of the site guidelines. When people do this, they're nearly always wrong, and often being outright abusive to another user. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't do this again. If you want more explanation, there's reams of it at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

I apologize if I'm wrong. It seemed suspicious.

I know it seems that way; it's a common perception, which is why these posts are so common. But we've learned from long experience that in nearly all cases, it's an optical illusion coming from a cognitive bias, which we almost certainly all share (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...). The trouble is that the resulting accusations poison the community in their own right.

If you read back through some of the posts I linked to you'll see tons of commentary about that.

So if people disagree with you, they must have an agenda, is that how you think? OMG, you really have problems.

Please don't break the site guidelines by getting personal, even if another comment is wrong or broke the guidelines itself.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

People assuming that someone with opposing views must be disingenuous, astroturfing, a shill, or bad-faith actor, is so common on the internet, including HN, that it is probably a cognitive bias we all suffer from. I've written about this a ton, and we do everything we can to counteract the toxic effect this bias has on discussion. But that doesn't make it ok to lash back at someone.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

I'd appreciate staying away from personal attacks on HN. If you have a case to make, then flagging the user is the best way to do it. Emotions are clearly running high on US - China relations and it's pretty hard to find the signal through all the noise. Calling people out in public doesn't help things.

it's not a personal attack, and I can't flag people. There is a real problem at the moment with fake accounts trying to sway public opinion.

You can mail the mods if you think you've found a real problem.

I just realize what you're implying here. You think only China state-controlled "bots", or some China govt sponsored actors would be posting comments like what I posted here, right? OMG, if that's what you think, you really need to get out to other part of the world and ask people what they think of this whole Huawei attack. You'd be surprised how many people think the bad actor here is the US govt.

I'm so glad you ask. I certainly have an "agenda". That agenda is to give a balanced view on what currently is a completely one-sided criticism of Huawei. Since Trump started the trade war on China, every piece of US media coverage of Huawei is negative, portraying it as the greatest evil on earth. That sounds very coincidental and suspicious, does it?

If Huawei has been such a bad actor, how come there were hardly much coverage before Trump trade war. It's been around during the Obama administration, during the G W Bush administration, it was already a rising tech startup during the Clinton admin. How come no one noticed it's spying on its customers and other "terrible" behavior? and no one took issue with it?

So, answering your question, having follow HN for a short while, I actually feel there is a hidden agenda in the many of the comments here in HN, and that agenda seems suspicious aligned with the Trump administration foreign policy.

I looked at the comment history and found nothing surprising at all. looks like any other Chinese engineer

how do you know i'm chinese?

lol just guessing. Chinese immigrants are likely to comment on China related issues and hold dramatically different viewpoints from most westerners, who are blind-sided by the misinformation spread by their media

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