[raxxorraxor]

I dislike people promoting extensions to the formerly liberal moderation and content controls on the net because the current status quo was entirely predictable.

And your statement is wrong. There was a culture that such content wasn't removed and if it was done, there was a backlash. Even on platforms like Facebook and there certainly was a time where such removals generated feedback.

But activists demanded censorship and everything degenerated into some stupid partisan shit about bullshit topics that do not matter.

It doesn't take too much to comprehend that the demands for censorhip normalized it in the end.

And open solutions like ActivityPub also had to suffer the insufferable and made the openness a moot point.

Govt funding would make everything even worse because people would demand even more content controls and there are numerous leverages where public officials could be pressured to enact more content controls.