Jannies had it coming tbh. They were certainly tightening the rope when it came to free speech in the last few years
Let me give you an example. /k/ is the weapons/military forum, and it's unironically run by US government authorities. Vulgar racial slurs are wholly permitted -- but if you question certain aspects of US military or foreign policy, or suggest that Russia/China/etc. aren't houses of cards that will topple the moment the US wills it, your comment will probably be deleted and you'll be hit with a 3-day ban.
turns out all that crap was just what everyone expected it to be: fabricated lies. And also Russians are really bad at conducting war and resorting to meat wave tactics. For a board that cares about firearms and military tactics, it didn't take too much of a far reach to dislike and laugh at Russia.
Having more bodies to throw at your enemy is a valid, war-winning tactic. Really that's what the meme _should_ be. Russia will beat you with poorly trained soldiers and two generations old tech. Bet.
But I guess that also undermines everything that /k/ stands for...
Technological and tactical superiority can help you win a war but you're making the mistake of thinking that war is something other than what it is. Ultimately it's about how much death and chaos your population can tolerate vs the other guy. Russia habitually proves that their appetite for it is enormous.
Even when they lose it's only a few years that go by before they're waging war again.
Make a thread about Chinese naval buildup or related strategic developments in the Pacific on /k/; banned for "off topic". Get into an argument with a user who turns out to be a janny; banned for "trolling". Respond to a funny /tv/ thread memeing on some TV show, banned for "responding to off topic threads". Post a dozen pictures of rockets in the spaceflight general being raided by some /pol/tard who thinks space is fake, get banned for "spamming".
The jannies are arbitrary and capricious. Three day bans can't be appealed so they hand them out like candy.
Particularly, when these are good people who put a lot of effort into keeping 4chan a pleasant community, by e.g. removing hate speech and CSAM, as well as banning offenders.
Instead of burning personal time and energy on trying to clean up 4chan, a person can always just... Not.
Let it burn and sink into the swamp. Stop making that DNS query.