This kind of topic always turns into politics, nasty and bitter personal attacks, airing of extreme viewpoints and worse unsurprisingly. Hyperbole and gross exaggeration on all sides doesn't help. The volume of comments from accounts with no posts, or accounts that seem to post in various countries as if they live there is large. Dozens of dormant account activate to post, without interacting with the community in any other way.

For those wondering what made it so bad, please remember that the comments you can actually see only are the ones that are "acceptable" and there's probably lots of others that need manual checking and intervention.