Is there an official HN stance on this? There have been times I comment, with frustration, that a statement/positions can be hard to grok for those who don't have an automatically-American context in mind (you know, because they might not live in America) the downvotes come swiftly and snarky comments about "this is an American messageboard" follow.

So I'm actually genuinely curious what YC/HN's official position on this is. Asking broadly.

There was already a US-centric context via the parent comment:

It was a link to a RAND report warning the US Military of cyber-attacks in the US, the report starting off as: "The chances are growing that the United States will find itself in a crisis in cyberspace, with the escalation of tensions associated with a major cyberattack, suspicions that one has taken place, or fears that it might do so soon."

The comment I was replying to was literally a link to a RAND report warning of such things in the US, the reporting starting off as:

"The chances are growing that the United States will find itself in a crisis in cyberspace, with the escalation of tensions associated with a major cyberattack, suspicions that one has taken place, or fears that it might do so soon."

If that's the case, then they should have make that critique directly rather than beat around it with questions that they didn't actually need answered.