It's not a person in the chat, it's an account. The account is usually controlled by the person associated with it, but you can't assume that it's always controlled by that person.
One could assume that the previous priority was "grow the app catalog through the use of a permissive listing model," and it's changed to "improve the quality of the app catalog by being more selective about who and what is allowed to be listed."
Never present an option you wouldn't want to live with. The internet teaches us that what "nobody should ever do" isn't obvious to everyone all the time.
But for modernity's sake, the site needs to add 100 MB of poorly-understood and maintained JavaScript dependencies that break the behavior you're describing so that it can be done entirely in JS.
Sure, but FreeBSD also has a Linux compatability layer. For a company that's given up on the server market so many times, making MacOS compatible with _THE_ server OS makes a lot of sense.
It's great because it gives politicians a foreign enemy to deride, generates lots of online engagement, doesn't impact people's lives in any meaningful way, and when it's implemented, it's only visible to people in the country ordering the rename.
What's the political alignment of this group? All we have is a paid press release from a group founded in 2024, with an executive board consisting of "Jive, Lilli, and Nathan."
One example: They're selling domain registration privacy, but don't sufficiently secure the private data. The entire Domains by Proxy dataset is available on the dark web.
It happens all the time in 2024, but it takes the form of pharmacy benefit managers arbitrarily forcing people off effective medications onto cheaper, less effective ones.