I got banned from FR for a week for liking Cruz. I liked Trump, but liked Cruz more at the time. I certainly hope that people aren’t banned for being on opposite sides of the Corona debate.
More unproven baloney, not that it wouldn't have been deserving.
A lot of people got whacked with the ban hammer back then. It wasn't so much that they liked Cruz, it was the fact that they formed up into mobs that descended onto any pro-Trump thread to attack anyone who disagreed with them with name calling and personal insults.
The most egregious example was the user "libbylu" whose opus is a prime example of what was going on. I'm not saying there weren't some on the Trump side who did the same thing, it just seemed at the time that they were greatly outnumbered by the vicious Cruz supporters.
Does this sound familiar, in the context of today's "flubros vs fearpers" dispute?
I have no idea if your ban was appropriate or not, nor do I care. But if people can't engage in rational discussions without resorting to infantile name calling and mud slinging, then they deserve to be banned.