FH, I don't think he was referring to dangerous for the moderators. I think he was trying to get to the point that if you push an anti-government narrative (in some countries ) you're going to punished, and these governments will try to punish the website(s) in question. -- Just wanted to clarify this.
Though, I don't think we cause enough dissidence/issues to have authoritarian governments trying to shut us down. So we should be fine.
Honestly I do not know of a list of topics that we can't discuss. I don't see anything in the article that would violate forum rules.
Now if you were discussing how to get to a website that was selling assassinations of law enforcement officers that would be against the forum rules. But if you were just discussing the site and not how to get there it would be fine AFAIK...
I am not worried about the forum and what any gov't is going to do to it. That is theymos' responsibility! Until he red lights certain topics (which I don't see happening) you can say damn near anything. I firmly believe theymos understands the difference between a distributor and a publisher and those are VERY different categories in terms of legal definitions!
The forum is obviously not responsible for what a user should and shouldn't post from their own region, if that user may get in trouble some how for discussing a topic it is their responsibility to deal with those issues.
TLDR until theymos tells me my interpretation of the forum rules are wrong (which is a possibility) I will continue to allow all topics that don't violate the forum rules and I do not see a single thing that would persuade me your article (drgomez' article more accurately!) is not 100% allowed by the rules!
The forum is as free as possible for good or bad!