Among other things: Notice FA admins recently saying "we're going to bring up a controversial topic that people are angry about, spam every user about it, and threaten all users if they express a dissenting thought about it or about the fact that we're doing this". This kind of thing is happening on a large scale right now. It almost doesn't matter who's right about these things; those of us who want to use words to earn money and solve problems are scared we won't be allowed to. Today it's topic X. Tomorrow it'll be something else that we'll be forbidden to talk about, if we don't want to be de-platformed or worse.
It is disturbing how similar the current situation in the USA is to the situation of the USA in the late 2010s and early 2020s in your Thousand Tales series. Deeply divided and shortly before breaking in two parts.
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