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> The choice to have a policy for ejecting jerks has serious costs.
> One of those costs is the kind of rancorous dispute that has been
> burning like a brushfire on this list the last few weeks.

I agree.  Look at the huge ongoing debate about Section 230 in the US
that's been going on for at least months.  This is something that seems
like it ought to have a simple solution, but it doesn't.