Go to the instance in question, scroll to the bottom of the page, click modlog.
You were rather predictably banned for criticizing China. You hit the nail on the head with your last statement, if a .ml mod or admin are participating in a given thread, don’t even bother
Internet infrastructure in the US in particular isn’t a monolith like that. A “core router” is a high capacity router in an autonomous system that will usually communicate with other core routers in other systems, owned by different and often competing entities
Meh. It’s all about power. Same reason tucking in your shirt and being clean shaven is a big thing for some boomer execs, it’s just some bullshit they can’t use to force people to conform
You’re not funding anything important for 10k