Honestly speaking, I feel like the USA is putting itself in a bad place when it comes to politics.
Politics stances cannot be censored in a sane and democratic country, even if what has been said is a proven lie and even when someone is demagouging. That's because people are supposed to think by themselves in democracy and build their own ideas and opinions, even if by lies. Why? Because there are laws for that. It's the principle of separation of powers. It's not the job of communities to proof-read or to censor, it's the judiciary's. If someone istigates, if someone lies, if someone commits a crime, it has to be taken to court and judged by who is supposed to do so.
Internet for the USA has become the place where the trials take place -- and there's nothing that terrifies me as much.
The reason why is not because our founding fathers didn't want to protect us from such things, but because they knew that when you give someone the power to decide what can be said, what can be done regarding ideas/opinions/political values outside of courts... then democracy itself crumbles. Democracy is supposed to defend itself from the people who try to demagouge, by debating, not by censorship. The moment you have the power to censor a thought, that's the end of the line.
The feeling I have when I see the USA political scene is that, no matter whether you talk about leftits, rightists or the forevermore ignored centrists, they all seem to believe that they should hold the power and when they do so, eliminate the opponents. In democracy, it doesn't work like this. Even if one of the sides wins, the other is supposed to partecipate with the political life of the country, because when a party wins or loses, it's not like the people who voted for it vanish. They must be represented too, otherwise we'd talk not about democracy, but oligarchy (i.e. few to command). That's what to me seems like missing nowadays: the perception of the other, the empathy towards the ones that don't think like you but at the same time lives in the same country as you. i.e. Republicans believe that Democrats should disappear when they win an election and Democrats think the same. Doesn't it seem wrong to anyone else?
This lack of empathy makes people gatekeeping in such a violent manner that I sometimes am left scared; "if you don't think like us, you must be cancelled" is a crime whether it comes from the right ("stop putting LGBTQ+ characters in media) or from the left ("you cannot wear space buns because you're not black"). And I see so many places nowadays in which people are not free to express themselves -- just think about gaming boards, which I won't mention because I don't know if I can, that ban people JUST if they don't align with a specific political party. That's scary as hell -- it's like we've totally forgot what we've been fighting for throughout all the last couple of centuries, and in such a fragile time, in which the West is challenged by the rise of authoritarians realities like Russia and China and how they're hindering and influencing our political and social scene.
I'm just hoping that this is just an extreme point reached by the people -- and just like every other extreme point, doomed to standardize sooner or later.
In conclusion, I believe that GBAtemp should moderate as they are supposed to: by punishing and/or banning whoever insults, breaks the law in any way or form, urge their users to be civil and attach sources when they make statements to prove their points and, in case someone is blatantly lie, to just let the rest of the users debating and spread the truth, not censor. When free speech ends, democracy ends. This, of course, if the boards want to keep open a thread about politics in a gaming environment... which I don't think it's proper, but that can be done if it's seriously maintained.