Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18227674 and don't do this here.

Yes because burning religious icons and replacing them with nationalist icons is a step forward with respect to freedom of knowledge.

On the other hand, CCP/PLA ideology stifles the growth of knowledge as well. All you have to do is look at the work of the Red Defense Soldiers[1] (Red Guards). Communist ideology does not ensure that knowledge seeking will not be stifled, as amenable to the science as they may be.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Guards

The are not moving against them because of "religion restricts the growth of knowledge".

wow. the chinese internet propaganda warriors are all over this thread.

This breaks the site guidelines, and we ban accounts that do it repeatedly, so please don't do it again. Specifically: "Please don't impute astroturfing or shillage. That degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about it, email us and we'll look at the data." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The comment was also lazy, since a glance at the history of the account refutes it. Not that they've been great comments, but someone who has been posting about Python, web apps, organic batteries, web assembly, and carbonated soda for over a year is obviously a regular Hacker News user.

Edit: it looks like you've been using primarily for ideological battle. That's also a bannable abuse of the site, stated in the guidelines as explained by https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... So please stop doing that.

Tell that to the religious monks who during the Dark Ages help preserve and spread knowledge during the Dark Ages