Memes of Production

The rules are in place for actual enforcements. “Influence” here meaning actually mimicking Joseph Stalin for enforcing his views over all. e.g. “I would hate to gulag you for ‘wrongthink’”

That's a poor analogy. It's a federated network. No one is "gulaged" when we ban them. They've got the rest of the threadiverse to interact with. A "gulag" analogy would be apt if we had the ability to ban transphobic accounts from the whole of the fediverse, but we don't have that power. All we can do is stop them from entering our space.