My comment doesn't meet any of this criteria. The original article was about a Chinese company's unauthorized fork of OBS. It's semantics whether or not you consider an "unauthorized fork" as stealing, but I certainly do.

So it's neither unrelated or a generic tangent, as it relates to intellectual property theft. It's beyond question both that China as a country is known for stealing intellectual property, and that Chinese companies work closely with the CCP.

In the introduction of The Wires Of War by Jacob Helberg, he cites a statistic that estimates that "Chinese theft of intellectual property costs Americans anywhere from $225 billion to $600 Billion every year..."

It was a cheap and unsubstantive drive-by provocation on an inflammatory topic. Of course it meets the criteria—it's exactly the sort of thing the guidelines are asking you not to post here. Please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Do you seriously think the Googles and Apples of the US have not used GPL code in commercial products, ever?

Yikes. All I see is a comment that teeters on the brink of racism and now you're trying to backtrack.

Do you have any examples where Google or Apple have been discovered to violate GPL? AFAIK, Google outright bans GPL usage internally for the majority of things, and it's well-documented that Apple almost exclusively uses BSD-licensed tooling.