The topic of this article is “this weird Amazon discussion”. Consider finding a more relevant link about your point (or writing one!) and posting it to HN so your desired topic of discussion can be aired.

arrrgs comment is on topic and he makes a valid point about the way privacy-related topics are discussed in Germany.

Your comment on the other hand is (passive) aggressive in tone, unwarranted and out of place in this community.

Not passive at all, nor aggressiveness. The comment I replied to raises a very real and important question around whether surveillance is compatible with freedom and democracy, and it absolutely deserves a discussion. However, the importance of that discussion does not automatically nullify ‘lesser’ discussions within that concern space such as the one raised by German citizens about Amazon being subject to classified orders by the United States. The comment I replied to demands that we refocus the discussion away from the link posted and towards the also-relevant concern of surveillance and society. Had it instead simply talked about that concern rather than decrying our interest in this link’s discussion, I would have had no objection.