The GP comment was specifically a smear about YC, which is something I do have knowledge about. I don't for a moment believe that YC would invest in "buying out regulators and making competition illegal". That would go against everything I have ever heard, in public or in private, and everything I understand YC to be about.

Just because we moderate HN less when YC or a YC-funded startup is part of a story does not mean I won't respond like a normal human being.