The scope of "illegal activities" is what's at fault here, not the means by which they are enforced.
The fact that we can even have this discussion is in itself proof that there's orders of magnitudes of difference in allowed speech.
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It's there, black and white. I don't get what your bit here is (I find it hard to believe in the value of actually paying people to astroturf HN of all places on CN net policy), but the list is there.
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