that a TOS agreement was sent via DUmail to all DUers in 2016 or any other time. When you register, you agree to a linked TOS. If some received a DU mail copy of the TOS in 2016 it is possible they were among those the admins purposely sought to remind during the overheated primaries-- the latter which did lead to a lot of posters being "PPRd" and/or leaving to Jackpine Radicals, I agree. But that was not the case for the entire membership.
There are no loyalty pledges just an agreement to post in a manner consistent with the site policies as laid out in the TOS that includes supporting Democrats. It doesn't say there can be no discussion of disagreements.
Oh, and there have not been "moderators" since the DU2 version of the website. (We currently are DU4). We have two administrators, including the owner and the lead programmer and we have the jury system. If you post something that does not fit with the published linked purpose of a given forum, your post could be locked by the major forum hosts (and by those of the smaller subscriber forums). Such locked threads do not typically involve any penalties to the poster unless a jury alert occurred concurrently and determined otherwise.
Additionally, the Malicious Intruder Team (MIRT) does special scrutiny of new posters (less than 100 posts) that supplement the work of juries.
I suspect you are expressing concern over the Gaza-related criticism of Biden. I'd agree that some do not clearly express support for Biden trying to both protect Gazan civilians while supporting Israel's right to self-defense against Hamas. But, you can only engage them in discussion to try to clarify their views-- if they make a terse, yet unclear comment that leads you to believe otherwise.
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