I mean, having a big offtopic conversation (like this one is) is something that’s pretty legit for the mods to remove. I do understand why the digression about the-company-that-shall-not-be-named in the original keyboards thread was removed.

For the mod to take an axe to the comments in the second post, where people are trying to figure out even what TCTSNBN was and what its deal was, saying that what the mod knows is all that everyone needs to know, and no one is allowed to say anything else, is I think not really something that can be solved with an explanation in the comments or the sidebar. It’s not a “detail of the rules” thing. It’s a “Do I have enough respect for you to just give an explanation, and trust that people will take it seriously or not according to their own determination? Or do I need to remove anyone with any kind of dissenting judgement and leave only my own judgement, because that’s the one that is correct, and people might be poisoned if they see the incorrect one which is propaganda?” type of thing.

1. Dude, just go somewhere that isn’t lemmy.ml if you don’t like the censorship style of moderation.
2. I would let it go, TBH. I do get it. I felt the same when I first joined with Lemmy and found I couldn’t just say what I wanted to say. I actually tried to make this case to one of the lemmy.ml moderators a few days ago, for exactly this reason. But it sounds like their minds are pretty much made up, and arguing the case isn’t going to accomplish much. I think just find a different place instead of adding dispute to the daily menu.