Insulting the mature muscle waifu is fighting words >:/Wow, calm down, I just voiced my point of view on it, no need to go so agressive about it.
But I did lay the sarcasm a bit thicker than absolutely necessary, I'm sorry that it was hurtful. Point still stands that either you misremembered the scene, or you are blaming Hilstara for something that was not her fault, over something Simon's character is not bothered by, and in a way that goes against several established themes of the game.
Seeing how all the messages are still standing and no one was punished outside of the limited scope of the conversation they participated in, I'd say nothing was done to contradict the legality of "saying weird stuff about 'The Last Sovereign'".Can we legalize saying weird stuff about 'The Last Sovereign'? What would Simon say in our place? Would Orcent go on a verbal rampage? After all, isn't F95 is a public forum of sorts, just like the sages of old and Jurgen Habermas urged us to maintain, I ask you?
A public forum, in its very nature, demands a right of response. A public forum does not function if any person can simply shout whatever nonsense they want and then expect everyone else to only either be agreeable or quiet about it. If any single person was above being responded negatively, it wouldn't be much of a "public" forum.
It is the difference between being punished for your error and being punished by your error.
Also Orcent is 100% the kind of person that would bury fools with his words, he just does it with such wit and finesse that you'd have trouble even finding their graves.
Simon on the other hand would respond with "..." and a scowl, then proceed to replace key influential figures with copies and covertly promote those better aligned with his views until they are capable of directing the public discourse (refer to how Simon handled the political problems in Zirantia and Yhilin).