The most upvoted thing I've ever written on here by an order of magnitude was a post on yesterday's story saying I applauded the move to ban politics and censorship at gitlab. But sure enough it looks like they've given in to louder angrier voices instead of holding their ground.
And that's the most insane part of how this works. They are doing this to appease people but on average people hate these kind of politically correct fear/shame tactics. But I guess it's difficult to measure that and those few people sure sound angry so they buckle not realizing that they are ultimately making a much more unpopular move.