So I'm going to start this with the reminder that I am not a lawyer or a judge and that this is not a country, this is a game community.
The categories of bans have since been removed, https://forum.totalfreedom.me/…edom-community-guidelines is the guidelines we work to, though the French law aspect is still valid, especially given these forums are hosted on infrastructure geographically located in France.
Before I address the law part, I'm going to address the other two community guidelines this breaks
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1) Respect & remain mindful of other members of the community.
3) Join the community to engage and have fun, not to advertise, promote hate or otherwise try to harm the overall community
I appreciate the post in question might well have been made with noble intent, and I certainly hope that is the case, however, given the context of the thread and the fact nobody seemed to take such offence on the other post (EDIT: The cat post for clarification), I'm less convinced of this.
With that in mind, I'm going to issue a permanent forum ban for the user in question, who can appeal no earlier than 90 days from today.
To cover the French Law aspect, while it is true that French law should be followed on the forums due to them residing there, the reality is I am not qualified to make such a judgement, and where these rules have been enforced previously were under very different circumstances, where the nuance of French law was not really required. Given no legal proceedings have been put forward, at this time I'm not going to go further with this, and would suggest that we focus less on specific law-breaking and more on community guidelines...
I'm going to unlock this thread but would ask people to keep it civil or I'll just re-lock it.