The comment looks to me to have been quite organically upvoted. The upvoters are mostly users who've been here for years (in many cases, a lot of years) and have posted and voted on all kinds of topics in the past.

While I have you, could I ask you to please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? Note these two of the guidelines:

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email [email protected] and we'll look at the data."

"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

Alternately, more Americans are aware of the threat than you give us credit for.

Threads like this are always heavily moderated though. There’s no such thing as free’s peach, only big pretense.

I wonder how much foreign disinformation misinformation campaigning is gaming the priority here.

It's in China's interest -- not a small population -- for tiktok to continue to influence American thought.

So I speculate we are witnessing HN being influenced by mis/disinfo.

Eg I see here many repeated "Free Speech" being a corporate mandate claims, and other easily discounted factually unsound claims, misleading the conversation.