Canada has far less freedom of speech than the US. They’re also able to halt it by public announcement.

The Ottawa trucker movement exposed a lot of this.

Not a bad compromise. I hadn’t thought about the use case of wanting to block people personally without affecting the community.

Totally agree and I have a hunch on who the mod was but that doesn’t really matter to me much. I’m not asking anyone to unmask them.

That said, was there really not a single other candidate available that didn’t “need” to become anonymous?

No more anonymous alt mod accounts please.

I still don’t understand why there wasn’t a single other user on this instance that could have been modded without legal worries. Really felt like a copout to go anonymous and slowly transition the rest of the team to alt accounts as well.

I don’t see how this can work when the mod(s) are switching to anonymous accounts. Would the latest fresh alt mod account really be a new person or would it the previous mod with a new alt name?

“…and nobody is paying attention…”

This is something we read and hear about every single day. Not sure how much more attention we could give it.