Edit: I see the problem, even with a self-hosted instance of 1, when you comment on posts in other instances that data is no longer held on your server, so you don’t own it and can’t control it directly, is that right?

The “problem” is also going the other way around. If a large instance is sharing data with your single user instance, they ultimately cannot control what you do with it.

The same is true if you just scrape the website.

The most absurd about this imo. is that Arabic is considered promoting terrorism, but Vikings are not.

In Germany someone trolled a mayor candidate of one of the Nazi parties with that. He fell for it

https://www.politico.eu/article/far-right-german-candidate-promises-to-get-rid-of-arabic-numerals

So Israel is now announcing its intent to torture EU citizens?

What comes next, invading Cyprus?

“escalation” of unarmed people bringing food to people being starved on purpose, knowing they will probably be assaulted and abducted by armed military gangs on the way.

The escalation is coming from the armed thugs assaulting the ships, not the other way round.