"I dislike bratty teenagers as it is and don't care: in what field exactly is a preteen an expert, and why should they be allowed to troll me as Zach Silverstein did? There are millions of websites for brats; let him and his cohort play, fling doodoo and cast snark at the other 9,999,999+"<p>Sounds like a clear violation of the "be nice" rule to me. I don't know enough about Quora to know what kind of tone is normal there, but I would be perfectly happy with a community that banned anyone who spoke like that.
This sort of hyperbole is unhelpful.<p>North Korea is totalitarian. Nazi Germany was totalitarian. The Soviet Union was totalitarian. Criticising the government could get you executed, or imprisoned in a far away forced labour camp for a long time.<p>Quora is a website. They can, er, ban you from using their website. That might be a stupid, not very nice action for them to carry out, but it's not totalitarian.
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