No government operatives have permissions of any kind on HN. We don't know any government operatives nor have we ever heard from any*. I assume HN is much too small a fish for them to fry. You're overestimating HN's real-world impact by a long shot (but underestimating page views btw! it's more like 8M hits a day - maybe 10M if you include the API).

Plenty of posts on HN are critical of megacorps, government, status quos, and/or media narratives. You might be closer to the mark with your phrase "sowing resentment", though—that sounds like ideological battle, flamewar, and other low-quality internet noise, and those are indeed things we don't want here. Not because we're trying to preserve status quos—we aren't—but because we're trying to run a forum for curious conversation, and resentful rallying poisons that utterly.

* other than from law enforcement on rare occasions - maybe once every 2-3 years, if that - in connection with some investigation or other. Never anything political or ideological though.

As someone who really understands the feeling of frustration caused by unfair censorship - I'd like to point out that Daniel, the HN admin, is a very chill and understanding dude.

I'm sure if you contact him at hn@ycombinator.com and ask politely, you'll either get un-shadowbanned or a very good explanation of why not. He's a person, like you or me, not a personification of megacorps.

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Alternatively, you can keep doing nothing but commenting about how oppressed you are. That's also an option. It won't accomplish anything, but it would feel very pleasant for someone with persecution fantasies.