This last weekend was
New Year's Furry Ball in Newark, Delaware, and it seems to have raised some controversy leading up to the event due to the way the official Telegram chat was moderated.
In order to actually gain access to the chat in any capacity, you are required to join the "
NYFB waiting room" chat, where you are then required to provide a link to your social media, at which point a moderator presumably scans your account to make sure you're not posting any wrongthink. If you refuse, you don't get access to the chat.
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It looks like they're deleting posts in this channel once they approve/reject somebody, so I can't tell how many furs they've turned away. However, it appears this policy didn't apply to people already in the chat before this was instated.
Glancing at Twitter, at least one furry was immediately banned for an "unacceptable" social media presence, and the replies suggest the chat mod immediately upgraded this to a ban from the actual event as well.
Unfortunately, said fur's account is locked so I don't know what they specifically said or did, but there are numerous replies from other furries suggesting they tweeted something right-leaning and were immediately banned for not being woke enough.
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