I could see them being used for say an approved cms editor who can edit cms pages but doesn’t have full user administration privileges, donator giving slightly higher storage or flair as thanks for financially helping run the place, trusted/power users who you feel can upload video or more content and aren’t just going to suck up storage.

It’s a mix of a few features I saw floating around (different storage allotments, etc) and my own love of silly phpbb roles.

Yes.

Journalists were given an escort out of the courtroom by security after one of them was threatened inside the court by one of Robinson’s supporters. The man was ejected from the press gallery and later from the courtroom.

So threatening people is legal and only gets you removed from the premises?

Australia’s existence as a colonial export nation continues.

Have they ever stopped? The US had two red scares alone. McCarthyism led to mass surveillance of anyone suspected of being left. Civil Rights movements have been investigated by feds all the time.

Sigh, I want to be a naked fairy posing all chill.